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​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.

​THE NEED

​​​• ​100,000+ 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.
• A total of 6,541 living donor transplants were performed in 2021, an increase of 14.2 percent over the 2020 total.

​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.
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OU Medicine - The Children's Hospital
OU Medicine - Oklahoma Transplant Center 
St. John Transplant Center
Integris Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute
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