If you are interested in becoming a living kidney donor and are in good health, here are some steps you can take. More details
Kidney Transplantation - A Guide for Patients from Beaumont Hospital on Vimeo.
This series of patient information videos, presented by the NKTS team, explains kidney transplantation and should help prepare you for coming to our transplant clinic for evaluation, how to look after yourself while you await a kidney transplant, the different donor types that may be available to you, how the transplant pool works, the transplant procedure itself and living kidney donation.
Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease. A kidney transplant requires an operation that places a healthy kidney in your body. The transplanted kidney takes over the work of the two kidneys that failed, so you no longer need dialysis.
