Stanford Health Care | The facts about kidney living donation | Thaderine's inspiring story @StanfordHospital | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
Did you know there are 90,000 Americans on the kidney transplant waitlist? A patient might spend up to 10 years on dialysis, waiting for a transplant. Help shorten their wait and save a life, like Thaderine did. As a living donor, she donated her kidney to a stranger. In return, her husband received a gift back: a healthy kidney. They both went home shortly after surgery. Watch her inspiring story and learn from Stanford Health Care doctors how living donation works and what to expect.
Learn more at: stanfordhealthcare.org/livingdonor
Did you know there are 90,000 Americans on the kidney transplant waitlist? A patient might spend up to 10 years on dialysis, waiting for a transplant. Help shorten their wait and save a life, like Thaderine did. As a living donor, she donated her kidney to a stranger. In return, her husband received a gift back: a healthy kidney. They both went home shortly after surgery. Watch her inspiring story and learn from Stanford Health Care doctors how living donation works and what to expect.
Learn more at: stanfordhealthcare.org/livingdonor
