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A quadruple amputee from Kansas had lost hope after learning she would need a kidney transplant to survive — until her big brother came to the rescue.

For Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith, getting to this point wasn’t easy. His journey to a kidney transplant came with uncertainty, waiting and plenty of difficult days.

A woman in need received a kidney donation from an unlikely place: her identical twin sister.

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is pleased to welcome its newest microsite center: Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. A total of 67 transplant centers nationwide now participate in the NKR’s Microsite Program. The Microsite Program provides free websites and coaching to transplant patients seeking a living donor to increase their chances of …

After 11 years on dialysis, a Kentucky woman finally found a living kidney donor through the National Kidney Registry.

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) has achieved a significant milestone: 1,500 microsite patients have now received a living donor kidney transplant through the NKR’s Microsite Program. The Microsite Program gives kidney patients a free, personalized website and one-on-one coaching from a team of professional donor search coaches. Together, these resources help patients share their stories …

Two longtime coworkers and neighbors turned to the National Kidney Registry’s paired program to make a life-saving kidney transplant possible when they weren’t compatible matches.

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is proud to welcome Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as its 30th Microsite Center of Excellence (MCE), honoring the transplant center’s outstanding success in using the NKR’s Microsite Program to help patients find living kidney donors. The NKR created the MCE program to establish a set of best practices for microsite …

Carolyn Read, a palliative care nurse practitioner who lives in Evanston, is the donor who started the chain that ultimately connected Ethan Carpenter to his ideal match.

Two longtime coworkers and neighbors turned to the National Kidney Registry’s paired program to make a life-saving kidney transplant possible when they weren’t compatible matches.