Back in 2010, California’s legislature bought into Steve Jobs’ charisma and passed the nation’s first living kidney donor registry. Not the type of registry we donor activists are fighting for, the type that would collect data about living donors’ health and well-being after donation, but a government approved list of folks who would be willing …
Category Archive: Living Donor Misinformation
living donor misinformation and propaganda
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Kidneys & Nephrons Are More Valuable Than the Transplant Industry Admits
We’ve all heard the slogans: Donate Your Spare You Only Need One So on, so on, so on… Yet these days, the standard treatment for small renal masses is what is known as kidney-sparing (or nephron-sparing) surgery. Surgeons used to remove the entire kidney, but they now only take as small a portion of …
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Just a Reminder for all those prospective living donors out there…
A living donor is not required to have their surgery at the same transplant center as the recipient. Every living donor has the right to choose their own surgeon and transplant center. Donated organs are transported every day; there is NO medical reason why a living donor MUST be at the same facility as the …
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If Every Transplant Center Says It, It Must Be True
Subtitle: Or it isn’t, but they say it anyway… Recently, Google Alerts dropped the University of Wisconsin Medical Center’s “10 Reasons Why You Should Be a Living Kidney Donor” in my lap (or inbox). The exaggerations and misleading statements on the page are worthy of multiple blog posts, but right now I want to …
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