Why donate your kidney at UAB?
UAB has become a national leader in kidney transplantation since performing our program’s first kidney transplant in 1968. Currently, the UAB Kidney Transplant Program is one of the largest kidney transplant centers in the nation, performing almost 300 transplants each year. Our reputation for excellence is based on our highly skilled transplant doctors, multidisciplinary team of specialists, dedication to patient care and education, and exceptionally high patient survival rates. Moreover, our patients benefit from our long history of experience and achievement in kidney transplantation. Since 1987, UAB has performed more living donor kidney transplants than any other kidney program in the United States, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
In 2006, UAB became the first transplant center in the Southeast to pursue paired-kidney exchange, a special type of living-donor arrangement. Blood-type and tissue incompatibility can be barriers to a successful donor-recipient match. However, this unique program allows incompatible donor and recipient pairs to be matched with other pairs for compatible transplant. The UAB Kidney Paired Donation Program has significantly increased the number of patients who are able to move from organ waiting lists to successful transplantation.
UAB has also made significant treatment advances that help to overcome some types of donor-recipient incompatibility, making more kidney transplants possible than ever before. For example, treatments developed at UAB have enabled donor-recipient pairs with certain forms of blood-type incompatibility to proceed with successful transplantation. Another advanced treatment developed at UAB, called desensitization, is proving effective in treating incompatible antibody levels in donor-recipient pairs, increasing the chances of a successful outcome after transplantation.
To learn more about kidney donation please fill out this form or call 1-888-822-7892, or (205) 975-9200.
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