Living Organ Donation Declines
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The Case for Donating a Kidney While You're Still Alive
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Only about 6,500 people in the U.S. donate a living kidney every year , out of roughly 25,000 kidney transplants performed in total.
Living kidneys tend to survive longer in their new recipients than those from a deceased donor, lasting over 20 years in some cases.
Elizabeth Plummer: Removing all financial disincentives to living kidney donation is essential to increasing the number of transplants and reducing the persistent shortage.
Donor medical teams do extensive workups to evaluate whether you are medically qualified to donate, but age is not necessarily a deterrent.
Each additional kidney transplant saves American taxpayers about $150,000 , Plummer says.
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