Kidney Donor Form
Interested in becoming a donor? If you match the same blood type as one of our current patients and are interested in helping, please contact us so we can answer your questions and discuss the process.
Donor Contact Form
Please fill in and submit the form below.
Kidney Transplantation
A living donation offers many advantages over a cadaveric donation:
- The kidney, when obtained from a living donor, is usually a better match, which reduces the risk of rejection (more than a 90 percent success rate for the first year)
- Kidneys from living donors last longer than cadaveric organs
- The patient does not have to wait months or years for an organ
- The transplant can be scheduled when both patient and donor are ready
- Patients do not have to take as much anti-rejection medication
- Living donated kidneys begin to function immediately; cadaveric donors may take several days or weeks to begin working