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Kidney Donor Information
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Paired Donation can help.
It is estimated that paired donation will one day allow for an additional 3,000 living donor renal transplants per year in America, greatly increasing the number of living kidney donors. To put things in perspective: the average living donor kidney functions for 15.5 years, while a deceased donor kidney typically lasts only half as long. Of all the advances made in renal transplantation in the last 25 years, paired donation has the greatest potential to extend the lives of patients with renal disease. However, paired donation is still in its infancy and needs further development. The Alliance for Paired Donation (APD) seeks to foster that development. APD is a non profit organization that has been created to serve kidney patients through a multi-faceted approach: education, charitable gifts, and ongoing development of paired donation technology. |
Today's computer technology allows transplant programs in different regions of the country to be linked together.
The APD's goal is to combine these regional databases to form one national paired donation program. Simply put, the more living donors registered in the paired donation system, the more lives that can be saved.
The APD also seeks to provide patient support that goes above and beyond medical Intervention. The APD helps support patients and their donors and families who have unique needs. For example, we may assist patients who are unable to pay for the cost of their post-surgery medications, donors who sustain an injury during their donor operation, or donor/recipient pairs needing assistance with travel expenses related to their transplant. The APD will offer resources to help individuals facing unforeseen financial struggles like these and countless others related to renal transplant surgery.
The APD supports educational opportunities for at risk members of our local renal transplant community, as well as students and members of the transplant staff in order to further their understanding of the field of transplantation and improve the quality of patient care.
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