Nearly 90,000 folks within the U.S. are on the ready record for kidney transplant, in line with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Finding a donor kidney that’s appropriate and matches the proper blood and tissue varieties might be the most important problem, particularly when the donor pool is not as giant because the quantity of people that want a transplant.
Dr. Naim Issa, a Mayo Clinic transplant nephrologist, says there are some frequent myths concerning dwelling kidney donations that could be holding some folks again.
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