When healthy people donate one of their kidneys for transplant, they give others a much-needed second chance at life. Mayo Clinic experts are helping to dispel some of the most common myths surrounding living kidney donation. “For people with kidney failure, receiving a kidney from
Kidney Donation
The traditional way to treat people with advanced kidney disease has been to use dialysis to remove waste from the blood while patients wait several years for kidneys from deceased organ donors. At Mayo Clinic, transplant surgeon Dr. Mikel Prieto and colleagues advocate for a different approach called preemptive transplantation: Kidneys from living donors are […]











