The problem with that is there is just no telling when you would get a matching organ.
They do testing throughout the whole evaluation process. The results that came back Monday before the scheduled transplant indicated that the match was not as good as they had first thought, so they canceled the transplant.
We find a kidney from a living donor tends to do better than a kidney from a cadaver donor, even if the cadaver is a perfect match.
We usually have in the area of 400 people on our waiting list, just for kidneys. We do an average of about 120 or 125 kidney transplants a year, so there are a lot more people waiting than actually get them.
We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the operation, so we put them through a pretty thorough exam.
You only need one kidney. Doctors say a lot of people are born with one kidney and never know they have only one kidney.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.