Posted on 01/28/2009 9:24:45 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
People who donate a kidney live just as long and are just as healthy as those with two kidneys, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers that is the largest ever done on the long-term health consequences of donation.
The study provides reassurance about the safety of kidney donation that could encourage more organ donations at a time when the need for such transplants is on the rise. Today there are 78,000 people on the kidney transplant list, and most will not survive the five- to seven-year wait for a kidney from a deceased donor.
"I'm hoping that this will alleviate the anxiety about living with one kidney," said Dr. Hassan Ibrahim, a university transplant surgeon and the lead author. "We can remove a lot of misconceptions."
The findings are in today's New England Journal of Medicine with an editorial that described the results as surprising and quite reassuring.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
i dont want to sound greedy but how much could i get?
That’s what I was thinking...sell a kidney and you save a life and get paid for it.
Donate???
Sorry, that was my college savings plan!
Ebay !!!!
“we can remove a lot of misconceptions”? AKA kidneys?
gee whiz next thing ya’ know i’m going to be called up and asked to donate just because I have two!
the protocol & harvesting kidneys is fairly strict here in the US compared to India.
Now I’m living in India?
give me your kidney or else! roflmao
*Puke* I could only donate a kidney if my wife, children or parents needed one. I cant imagine having a vital organ removed, with redundancy, without gagging.
I wish they’d pull a Niven on us and start harvesting organs from prisoners rather than rely on donations. cheaper than death row certainly.
Nothing, AFAIK it’s illegal to pay for body parts.
By this logic, since the average person only uses 10% of their brain...
perhaps we should all donate ours to reporters to help them come up to functionally illiterate.
Cheers!
Ummm, liberal douchebag journalist, with all the little respect due to you,
you first.
Too much hep b and c in the prisons, herpes, aids. It’d be an extrmely dangerous demographic to get organs from if you weren’t absolutely certain of dying in hours.
People live a long time on dialysis if they eat right. My father in law has been on dialysis for 5 years and is doing great because he follows the dietary guidelines, and he’ll be able to function a long time this way, until he dies, because he’s doing what he needs to.
Encouraging news, thank you.
Could this be because people who’re allowed to donate a kidney have been rigorously screened, and are more healthy in general than the two-kidney population? If so, the whole premise of the article is demolished.
The doctor performing the surgery is allowed to profit from it.
The hospital in which it is performed is allowed to profit from it.
The recipient that gets the organ gets have his freaking life extended.
....And the donor is legally disallowed from getting anything from the transaction whatsoever, except maybe some warm fuzzy untaxable feelings.
How about taking a healthy crap and think you passed a Democratic politician? Would make me feel really good!
I donate a kidney every April 15.
Bingo!
Hey, why not donate a cornea while you’re at it? You’ve still got another one.
How much are they willing to pay me to donate my kidney?
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