More than 95,000 Americans are on the waitlist for a kidney transplant.
Living-donor kidney transplant:
With most kidney transplants, surgeons take the organ from a deceased donor.
Living-donor kidney transplant is an option where a transplant surgeon will take a healthy kidney from a living person — whether a relative, friend, or stranger — and transplant it into the person with the failing kidney.
UPMC's kidney transplant team works with potential kidney donors and recipients throughout the entire living-donor kidney transplant process.
Before the surgery, we make sure donors can return to living full and active lives with one kidney.
If you're thinking of donating your kidney, find out more:
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As the nation's first pediatric transplant program, the Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has performed more pediatric transplants that any other pediatric center in the United States.
To schedule an evaluation for kidney donation, please complete the above “Register to Become a Living Donor” form, and a member of the transplant team will reach out to you in the near future.
