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  2. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    First Heart and Lung Transplant. Brenda Barber. 1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant. 1984. 10 years. First human hand transplant. Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard. Clint Hallam. The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001.

  3. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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    The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is a national registry in the United States listing kidney donors and recipients in need of a kidney transplant. NKR facilitates over 450 "Kidney Paired Donation" (KPD) or "Paired Exchange" transplants annually. [1] [2] More than one-third of potential living kidney donors who want to donate their kidney to a ...

  4. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Kidney transplantation. Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.

  5. ‘We’re not unicorns’: Husband donates kidney to ... - AOL

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    For example, Johns Hopkins Medicine found in a 2011 study that kidney transplants performed using live donors over the age of 70 are “safe for the donors and lifesaving for the recipients.”

  6. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Wikipedia

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    The Act was the first legislation enacted by all states in United States to address the donation of organs, tissues, and eyes as gifts to someone who may be in need of an organ for survival. [2] [3] The UAGA was drafted in order to increase organ and blood supplies and donation and to protect patients in the United States. [9]

  7. Sisters used Craigslist to find a kidney donor for ... - AOL

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    Living donor transplants help save the lives of people with end-stage liver or kidney disease by reducing their time on the transplant waiting list. Because those donors are healthier at the time ...

  8. United Network for Organ Sharing - Wikipedia

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    The United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN) in the United States, established ( 42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.

  9. Keller 21-year-old receives life-saving kidney transplant

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    KELLER, Texas - More than 100,000 people are on the national transplant waiting list, with most of them waiting for a kidney.. A Keller man with end stage renal disease got good news last week and ...

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