“In France, anyone who is legally of age can donate a kidney during their lifetime
,” recalls Professor Lionel Rostaing, head of the nephrology, hemodialysis, apheresis and kidney transplant department at Grenoble University Hospital.
Having only one kidney allows you to live perfectly normally and does not significantly increase the risk of kidney failure compared to the general population.
Living donation therefore represents a lasting solution to the shortage of grafts, especially since those from living donors have a much longer lifespan and are sometimes the only possible option for hyperimmunized patients.
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The 2011 bioethics law has slightly relaxed the rules: the search for a compatible donor can be done among the family (parents of the recipient and, by derogation, children, brothers and sisters, grandparents, uncles or aunts, first cousins and spouses of the parents), but also
“anyone who can provide proof of a close and stable emotional bond since at least…
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