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Kidney Paired Donation

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Kidney paired donation is an option for kidney transplant candidates who have a willing but incompatible donor. Here you can find resources for transplant professionals and patients.

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Someone is added to the national transplant waiting list every 10 minutes.

Every 9 minutes another person is added to the national transplant waiting list.

Each day, 20 people on average die each day while waiting for an organ transplant.

On average, 17 people die each day in the U.S. while waiting for a transplant.*

Up to eight lives can be saved by just one organ donor.

One organ donor can save eight lives.

*More than 6,200 candidates died in 2018 while on the wait list, or within 30 days of leaving the list for personal or medical reasons, without receiving an organ transplant.