You only need one kidney. Doctors say a lot of people are born with one kidney and never know they have only one kidney.
You only need one kidney. Doctors say a lot of people are born with one kidney and never know they have only one kidney.
They do testing throughout the whole evaluation process. The results that came back Monday before the scheduled transplant indicated that the match was not as good as they had first thought, so they canceled the transplant.
We usually have in the area of 400 people on our waiting list, just for kidneys. We do an average of about 120 or 125 kidney transplants a year, so there are a lot more people waiting than actually get them.
We want to make sure they're healthy in every way. We don't want to have two patients after the operation, so we put them through a pretty thorough exam.
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