Improving Living Kidney Donation & Transplantation
The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing living kidney donation, ensuring better donor-recipient matches, and providing comprehensive support and protections for living donors.
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What is Donor Shield?
Donor Shield is a comprehensive suite of support and protections offered to living kidney and liver donors by the National Kidney Registry. It includes living donor financial assistance for donation-related expenses not covered by insurance, as well as a wide range of help before, during, and after donation to make the donation process as easy, convenient, and safe as possible.
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My Kidney Donation Story: Vince Golden
I’ve been a registered dietitian for over 20 years, working in an outpatient dialysis clinic and also seeing patients in the earlier stages of kidney disease at a nephrologist’s office. I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by patients who go through dialysis—the fatigue, the feeling of being run down, and the toll it takes on their lives.
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60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
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