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Can you please tell me expected problems after donating a kidney to the donor?

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Dr. Tarek Naguib answered

Specializes in Nephrology and Dialysis

Donor issues: The donor' surgery is a bit bigger than the recipient's. However, now some centers remove the kidney via a scope. Wound healing is an issue depending on the type of wound. Also, if you have one kidney, you are taking some risk of dialysis if a stone or injury or disease affects the single kidney. However, with meticulous screening of donors, as practiced today, these risks are very small.

Answered 5/28/2013

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