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Kidney Transplant
About your kidneys and transplant
Living kidney donation
Living kidney donors
Types of living donation
Benefits and risks of being a living kidney donor
Making the decision to donate
How kidney donation can affect your life
Costs and insurance
Kidney donor testing
First stage of testing for donation
Potential tests for kidney donors
Psychosocial assessment
After donation
Transplant recipient information
Benefits and risks of kidney transplant
Types of kidney donation
About living donation
About Living Donation
Finding a living donor and transplant tourism
Deceased kidney donation
Kidney matching
Before your transplant: Evaluation and the wait list
Your transplant team
Getting ready
Health insurance and finances
Plan for your after-transplant needs
Staying mentally and emotionally well
Getting the call: Transplant day
Your transplant surgery
Your medicines
Medicines after your transplant
Nutrition
Nutrition before your transplant
Nutrition after your transplant
After your transplant
Health problems to watch for after transplant
Travel and pregnancy after transplant
Donor and recipient video stories
Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Registry
Living donation and transplant resources
Waiting for an available kidney can often take many years for people with end-stage kidney disease.
Living kidney donation is one option to many who are eligible for a kidney transplant. One of the most important benefits of having a kidney from a living donor is that the living donation can often happen much sooner than a transplant from a deceased donor.
The following stories provide a look inside the lives of some living donors and kidney transplant recipients. They talk about how family and friends came together to help each other.
Linda and Jane share a laugh and a special connection through living kidney donation. This is the story of this special connection.
See Linda and Jane’s living donor story.
Scott Barr didn’t hesitate when his sister, Lexi, asked him to donate his kidney to her. “It’s family. You just do it. No questions asked.”
See Lexi and Scott’s living donor strory.
The Kidney Paired Donation program allowed this couple to give, and receive, the gift of life.
See Lori and Rob’s Kidney Paired Donation story.
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