Kidney Donors Suffer Few Ill-Effects from Life-Giving ActTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 3:31PMIn a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one of their kidneys are likely to live just as long as those who have two healthy ones.
Kidney Donors Don’t Shorten Their Lives by Giving Up OrganTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 2:48PMPeople who donate a kidney in the U.S. don’t die any faster than nondonors long term, according to a large study that looked at donors over 15 years.
Kidney donors likely to live as long as othersTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 2:21PMNew research finds that people who donate one of their two kidneys to someone who needs it live just as long as people who have never donated a kidney.