What is your opinion of a live kidney donation?

Excellent, however: In the process of helping someone, you need to be evaluated to be sure that you are disease free, or else you may need dialysis yourself, later on. Also, psychosocial eval is done by transplant centers to make sure the recipient is able to render adequate care to the precious kidney in order to realize a 20 years longevity or near, which is on the average 5 years more than cadaveric (bank) kidneys.

Live Kidney Donation: Live donor nephrectomy is a safe surgery when a healthy person undergoes the surgery by an experienced donor surgeon after completing a thorough donor evaluation. It is a surgery that requires general anesthesia and most donors get discharged from the hospital after 48 hours. the mortality associated with the surgery is 0.02-0.03%.