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Living Kidney Donation Web Sites

Here are some additional web sites related to living kidney donation.

General Information on Living Kidney Donation

  • National Kidney Foundation in the US—Answers to questions about living donation. A great Q&A. The NKF also has a living donor message board which you can access here.

  • National Living Donor Assistance Center--a US government funded program that provides financial assistance to certain living donors.

  • The British Transplant Society has also published guidelines for living donor kidney transplantation. This is a large (2.44MB), comprehensive document targeted to medical professionals, so it contains a lot of medical terminology. You need to have Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer. If you read these guidelines, you'll be an expert!

  • Information on living donation from the UK-based National Kidney Federation.

  • The Transplant Living home page on living donation. Transplant Living is the online educational project of the US-based United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit organization that administers the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, the system that gathers and allocated organs for transplants in the US.

  • Questions and answers on living donation from the UK's National Health Service.

  • Living donor Q&A from the California Pacific Medical Center.

  • A PDF file, "Kidney Donation by Live Donors," published by the NSW Health (New South Wales, Australia).

  • A research paper from 2005 on living donation published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology made available on the London (Ontario) Heatlh Sciences Centre web site.

  • Information on living donation in Australia.

  • Another Australian site with PDF files on living donation on the middle of the web page.

  • Living Organ Donor Advocate Program home page.

  • Living donor site based in Australia: LivingKidneyDonor

  • Watch streaming video of a living kidney transplant. Here are videos of living kidney donation on YouTube: here and here.

Living Donor Registries, Paired Exchange and "Swap" Programs

Descriptions of Transplant Center Programs

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