Check out this article which discusses the acute need for kidney transplants for people suffering with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). Check out this link for more information on the disease. Live donor donation is the best method to find transplants for these people." Kidney transplants today have a very high success rate — 90 percent with a deceased donor, 95 percent with a living donor.
“Having a live donor is generally an advantage,” and allows for timing of the transplant so the patient doesn’t have to wait years and years, said Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, medical director of the kidney transplant program at UCLA. “And kidneys from living donors tend to last longer.”
The risk to the donor is extremely small, Danovitch said, and recovery is speedy especially now that most surgeries are done by laparoscope." This is from the above linked article form the Dayton Daily News.
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