If you are interested in becoming a living kidney donor, please 十大博彩推荐排名 to talk to a living kidney donor coordinator, or 请提交活体捐赠表格.
Requirements for living kidney donor candidates
- You must be at least 21年s old and without major medical or psychiatric illness.
- Smokers have more trouble with pneumonia, hernias and healing. We will encourage you to quit, and will help you do so with your consent.
- 你一定没有怀孕. Women on birth control pills must stop taking them 30 days before surgery, and wait at least three months after surgery before resuming use, 因为有血栓的危险.
- You must meet with the 移植手术 team once prior to transplant surgery.
- You must avoid aspirin and other similar drugs (such as Advil or Motrin) for at least seven days before surgery, as they increase the risk of bleeding complications during surgery.
- It is recommended that you have health insurance, although neither you nor your insurance company will be charged for kidney donation.
- You are expected to have a primary care doctor. 我们很乐意帮助你 找一个初级保健医生 如果需要.
成为活体肾脏捐赠者的步骤
Call 移植手术, or submit our form
打电话给我们的团队，或者 请提交活体捐赠表格 to express your interest in becoming a living kidney donor. Our living kidney donor coordinator will call you to record your health history and ask for proof of your blood type.
We do not change a kidney recipient's status on the deceased (cadaveric) kidney donor waiting list while we are evaluating you as a potential living kidney donor.
查看捐赠者信息包
Our living kidney donor coordinator will mail an information packet to you. 该包包括有关的文章 腹腔镜手术. 在检查完包之后, 如果你准备好成为捐赠者, 请打电话给协调员继续.
安排初步测试
Before we can begin any testing, we require that you sign and return a Living Donor consent form. This form is included in the Donor Information Packet, though you may also print and mail it to our office. View the instructions on being evaluated as a living donor.
A tissue typing and crossmatching test will be performed to make sure you and the kidney recipient are compatible. Test results normally take two to three weeks to process and must be received before organ donation can continue. During this time we will also have you collect some urine so we can test your kidney function. 如果你和你的捐赠者不匹配, it is usually possible to exchange kidneys with another pair of patients who are also not compatible, 所以两个受者都可以接受移植.
接受初步评估
Our living kidney donor coordinator will schedule an appointment for you to be examined by a nephrologist, 或者肾脏专家. 在预约期间, the nephrologist will review your medical history and current physical condition. 您还将会见我们的:
- 营养师
- 财务协调员
- 独立捐助者倡导者
- 活体肾脏捐赠协调员
- 药剂师
- 社会工作者
All of these specialists will spend some time with you, to make sure you are making a safe decision.
The nephrologist will order several medical tests, 包括血检和尿检, 胸部x光片, 和心电图(ECG或EKG). If the test results are favorable, you will also get a CAT扫描 that day, to make sure you have two healthy kidneys.
进行最终匹配(最终交叉匹配)
离预定手术日期还有两周, you will undergo a final crossmatching test with the kidney recipient, to make sure your blood and the recipient's blood are compatible. 此时你将见到你的外科医生.
接受手术
The day before your surgery, you will be asked to follow a liquid diet between noon and midnight. Do not eat between midnight and your surgery time. Our team will give you instructions about your prescription medications during your final appointment before surgery.
十大博彩推荐排名希区柯克医疗中心, all live donor kidneys are removed using a minimally invasive technique. This technique reduces the pain and discomfort for the donor, and allows a faster recovery.
在手术当天, 你会来医院的, where our team will prepare you for surgery in the same day surgery center. You will then be taken to the operating room for 腹腔镜肾切除术, minimally-invasive removal of the kidney, which takes about three hours to complete.
Staying at the hospital, follow-up visits and return to normal activity
Living kidney donors are usually ready to go home one or two days after surgery.
You will need to return for a follow-up visit two weeks after leaving the hospital. Yearly check-ups with your primary care physician are encouraged following kidney donation. The living donor team will see you—or at least check in and review lab results—6 months, 1年, 捐赠后2年.
Living kidney donors usually return to work four to six weeks after 腹腔镜手术. Avoid driving for at least two to three weeks after surgery. The vast majority of patients who are allowed to donate will quickly recover normal or near normal kidney function. This will remain true, with good health care, for the rest of their lives.