About Our Family
Please read our About Our Family
Page where you will find more about us. After you have read this page and
still have additional questions or concerns, please contact us. If you
cannot become a living kidney
donor
consider other ways of helping by reading below.
If you cannot become a kidney
donor for any reasons one of which is you must be blood type "O". We
have created a new program entitled
"Email Campaign For A Kidney Donor".
This is how you can help. Just email us requesting the letter we generated to
send to family, friends and anyone on your email list. When you do this ask them
to email the letter to all the people they know or have on their email list. By
doing this we can all help find a kidney donor, living kidney donor much faster.
This is almost just as important as being the kidney donor, because it may be
you who reaches the right person to become the kidney donor I need to perform
the kidney organ transplant. Please help me in this way if you cannot become a
kidney donor for me to have the kidney organ transplant.
This will
only take a minute of your time to get done
please click here.
If
you want you can email the email address you have to me
and we will send the letter on
your behalf. Click Here
Thank You, & May GOD Bless You All
Kidney Donor Needed (FAQ)
Mother
of two had kidney
failure kidney donor needed,
living kidney donor blood
type O for a kidney organ
transplant.
Giving Life Is Precious, kidney
donor needed page has been created
with information that may be useful and informative for every one. Below you will find some FAQ about becoming
the
kidney donor needed,
living kidney donor, blood type O and much more.
Giving Life Is Precious
(FAQ) about kidney donor, living kidney donor:
Who can be a kidney donor?
In addition to parents, children
and siblings, living donors can also include distant relatives,
adoptive relatives, in-laws, friends, church members, co-workers,
etc. The living kidney donor and the kidney failure recipient need to have compatible
blood types in this case we need blood type O, and the kidney donor must
be willing and healthy.
It is very important that potential kidney donor understand exactly what
the procedure involves, including testing, kidney organ transplant, recovery period
and possible risks. A psychological evaluation of a potential living kidney donor
may also be conducted.
In order to be a potential living kidney donor, you must be in good general
health. You must not suffer from high blood pressure, cancer,
diabetes, kidney disease or heart disease. Donors can be between 18
and approximately 60 years of age.
What's the first step in the kidney donor
process?
If you decide to be considered as a living kidney donor, two blood tests
determine if your blood type is compatible (in this case blood type O) with the
kidney organ transplant candidate
and the degree of HLA matching. If your blood type is not compatible
(blood type O),
you cannot donate. (More information about HLA type match follows in
this brochure.)
If
your blood type is compatible, the kidney organ transplant staff will discuss the
donation process with you. They will give you the information you need
to make an informed decision. All discussions are kept strictly
confidential. Also, your individual circumstances are evaluated. If you decide to become a
living kidney donor, the rest of the
evaluation begins.
What does the rest of the evaluation include?
The HLA tissue typing test,
performed as part of the first step, shows how well you match with the
recipient. Your blood cells are then mixed with the serum of the
recipient in a "crossmatch" test to see if that serum "kills off" your
cells. If cells are killed, it means that the immune system of the
recipient would reject your kidney.
Crossmatch tests are repeated a
week before surgery because the crossmatch can change. Even if the
crossmatch is not favorable for a kidney organ transplant now, it may be favorable in
the future.
Once the tissue typing and
crossmatch are determined, you will see a doctor of your choice or a
kidney organ transplant nephrologist at the Medical Center. The doctor will do a
medical history and a physical, as well as check your blood pressure to
ensure that you do not have any health conditions that would rule you
out as a living kidney donor.
A series of laboratory and X-ray
tests are conducted to screen for kidney function, liver function,
hepatitis and other viruses or infections. A urine collection shows if
your kidneys are functioning normally. A chest X-ray and an
electrocardiogram make sure your heart and lungs are normal. Other tests
may be necessary depending on the results of these studies.
If the doctor agrees you are a good
candidate, the final studies, a computerized tomography (CT) scan and an
intravenous pyelography (IVP), will be done at the same time. In these
tests, dye is injected into the bloodstream through a vein in your arm.
The dye travels to the kidneys and the urinary tract while CT scans and
X-rays are done. These tests help the kidney organ transplant staff to find out if your
urinary tract, kidneys and the blood vessels leading to them are normal.
These procedures are performed in the hospital on an outpatient basis
and usually take one hour. You can drive home afterwards. Tests will be
arranged by the kidney organ transplant office.
Testing may occur at the University Medical Center or
locally by a private doctor. Tests by private doctors are completed
under the direction of protocols facilitated by the Medical Center's
kidney organ transplant coordinator.
What are your health risk?
Death from being a kidney donor is extremely rare (about 3 in
10,000). Donating a kidney does not change your life expectancy nor does
it increase your chance of kidney failure. The health effects of kidney
donation have been and continue to be carefully studied by several
research groups in the United States. This research has shown that
being a kidney donor does not appear to put living kidney donors at any increased risk for
future health problems.