Facilitating Well-Matched Living Kidney Donor Transplants. Protecting and Supporting Living Donors.
The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing the number of kidney transplants from living donors, improving donor-recipient matches for longer-lasting transplants, and offering protection and support to living kidney donors to make the kidney donation process safer, easier and more convenient.
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What to Do If You’re Disqualified from Becoming a Kidney Donor Due to Your BMI
There are several reasons why someone might be disqualified as a living kidney donor. One of them is weight, or more specifically, body mass index (BMI).
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My Kidney Donation Story: Tara McNeil
Tara McNeil, a bilateral below knee amputee, donated her kidney to a friend in the same amputee support group as her through the NKR's Voucher Program.
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60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
Voucher Program Paying it Forward
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Kidney Chains Link Strangers