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Is you donate a kidney can you live a normal life like before you donated the kidney?
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Donating kidney. : A solitary kidney can hyper-function for many years, mimicking the efficacy of two kidneys working together. Eventually, however, the solitary kidney would start to falter.
Answered 11/16/2016
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