Call The Living Bank and we will provide contact information to transplant centers in your area or anywhere in the United States that has a living donor program. The Living Bank’s licensed clinical social workers and staff are always here to answer your questions on living organ donation.
Call 1-800-528-2971 today.
Donors specify to whom they want to donate an organ. They can include biological relatives; a biologically unrelated individual connected to the potential recipient, such as a spouse, friend, or co-worker; or a biologically unrelated person who has heard about someone in need of a transplant.
Donors give to an anonymous recipient on the national waiting list. Altruistic donors may also participate in a kidney chain. In a kidney chain your kidney is transplanted into a recipient who had a donor willing to give a kidney, but whose donor was not a match for them. This means your one donation can allow for many other donations to happen.
This involves two or more pairs of living kidney donors and recipients who are not medically compatible. The transplant candidates swap donors so that each receives an organ from someone with a matching blood type.
It is common for donors to experience exhaustion and small increases in blood pressure. Living kidney donors are generally discharged within one to two days and living liver donors are typically discharged within a week or two.
Recovery times vary among living donors. Living kidney donors may resume their regular activities within four to six weeks after donation and living liver donors generally resume normal activities within eight weeks.
Living organ donors lead healthy, active lives after donation. The Living Bank has relationships with a large community of living donors and we would be happy to connect you with them to ask questions and hear their personal stories.
