Approximately 100,000 Americans are on the waitlist for a kidney transplant.
Living-donor kidney transplant:
Register to become a living donor.
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UPMC Montefiore 412-647-5800
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There are two options for kidney transplants: living donors and deceased donors. With some kidney transplants, surgeons remove the organ from a deceased donor. At UPMC, we believe in the power of living donation and consider it a first-line treatment option.
During a living-donor kidney transplant, a surgeon will remove a healthy kidney from a living donor — whether a relative, friend, or stranger — and transplant it into the person with kidney failure.
To schedule an evaluation for kidney donation, please complete the “Register to Become a Living Donor” form below, and a member of the transplant team will reach out to you in the near future.
Register to become a living donor.UPMC is pleased to offer the opportunity for potential living kidney donors to speak with someone who has already been a living donor. If you’d like to connect with a mentor who can share their personal experience with you, please reach out to Cherie Peters, living donation liaison, at petersc5@upmc.edu or 412-215-2051.
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UPMC's kidney transplant team works with potential kidney donors and recipients throughout the entire living-donor kidney transplant process.
Before the surgery, we make sure donors can return to living full and active lives with one kidney.
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When his father-in-law David needed a kidney transplant, Ray stepped in as a living donor.
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As the nation's first pediatric transplant program, the Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has performed more pediatric transplants that any other pediatric center in the United States.
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