Yale New Haven Transplantation Center celebrated living organ donors from the past 10 years at an event in Branford. About 160 attendees, including 60 donors, recipients, staff and physicians participated. Pictured here are members of the transplant team.
With nearly 700 adult Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) patients awaiting a liver or kidney transplant, the opportunity to become a living liver or kidney organ donor could be a phone call away.
Since the Center for Living Organ Donors began at YNHH in 2015, nearly 500 people have responded. Such generous donations are helping chip away at the wait for liver and kidney transplants that, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, currently impacts some 99,000 people nationwide.
“Patients who get a living donor kidney transplant or liver transplant have better outcomes. They get a transplant faster with organs that are of better quality than from a deceased donor most of the time,” said Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, medical director, Center for Living Organ Donors and professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine.
Learn more about becoming an organ donor or becoming a living organ donor, or call YNHTC toll-free at 866-YALE-TXP (866-925-3897). Read about a match made in heaven.
