LIVING DONATION
Living Donation offers another choice for transplant candidates, and it saves two lives: the recipient and the next one on the deceased organ waiting list. Even better, kidney and liver patients who are able to receive a living donor transplant can receive the best quality organ much sooner, often in less than a year.
FACTS
• Living donation and transplantation was developed as a direct result of the critical shortage of deceased donors.
• Living donation is an opportunity to save a life while you are still living.
• Living donation is not covered by your donor registration and must be considered personally and discussed directly
with a transplant center.
• Today, one in four living donors are not biologically related to the recipient.
• Living donation offers an alternative for individuals awaiting transplantation from a deceased donor and increases the
existing organ supply, saving more lives.
• Living donation is an opportunity to save a life while you are still living.
• Living donation is not covered by your donor registration and must be considered personally and discussed directly
with a transplant center.
• Today, one in four living donors are not biologically related to the recipient.
• Living donation offers an alternative for individuals awaiting transplantation from a deceased donor and increases the
existing organ supply, saving more lives.
THE NEED
• More than 112,000 men, women and children await lifesaving organ transplants.
• 82% of patients waiting are in need of a kidney
• 13% of patients waiting are in need of a liver
• A living donor is an option for patients who otherwise may face a lengthy wait for an organ from a deceased donor.
• To spare an individual a long and uncertain wait, relatives, loved ones, friends and even individuals who wish to
remain anonymous may serve as living donors.
• 2019 was a record-setting year for living donation, with 7,397 living donor organ donations performed across the
country — far exceeding the 2004 record of 6,992 and increasing the nationwide rate by 5.8 percent.
• 82% of patients waiting are in need of a kidney
• 13% of patients waiting are in need of a liver
• A living donor is an option for patients who otherwise may face a lengthy wait for an organ from a deceased donor.
• To spare an individual a long and uncertain wait, relatives, loved ones, friends and even individuals who wish to
remain anonymous may serve as living donors.
• 2019 was a record-setting year for living donation, with 7,397 living donor organ donations performed across the
country — far exceeding the 2004 record of 6,992 and increasing the nationwide rate by 5.8 percent.
HOW TO START THE PROCESS
To help someone through living donation, talk to them and the transplant program where the person is listed. To be a non-directed living donor, contact a transplant center to find out if they have this type of donation program.
OU Medicine - The Children's Hospital
OU Medicine - Oklahoma Transplant Center
St. John Transplant Center
Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
OU Medicine - The Children's Hospital
OU Medicine - Oklahoma Transplant Center
St. John Transplant Center
Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
