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The Washington Regional Voluntary Living Donor Program
Thousands of Washington, D.C. residents -- both adults and children -- suffer from kidney failure and are in need of kidney transplants. As a way to increase the pool of living kidney donors, WRTC has formed a partnership with all seven of the area's transplant centers so that the entire Washington, D.C. region benefits.
The Washington Regional Voluntary Living Kidney Donor Program offers three unique ways to donate a kidney.
Voluntary Non-Directed Donation: (otherwise known as Non-Designated Kidney Donation) An individual volunteers to donate a kidney to the list of waiting patients, with no specific recipient in mind.
Deceased Swap Donation: (sometimes referred to as Kidney Donor Exchange or a three-way kidney exchange) If a non-matching relative or friend donates a kidney to the general waiting list pool, then their relative or friend would have priority on the waiting list for the next available kidney. The exchange benefits both the relative or friend and helps all the others still waiting by removing one person from the list.
Living Donor Paired Exchange: Suppose someone wants to donate a kidney to a relative or friend, but cannot because they aren't compatible. If another pair in the same predicament is found, an exchange may be possible. Having this option centralized through the organ procurement organization increases the opportunities for exchanges to be made.
Restrictions: Because this is a pilot program, any potential recipient for the swap or exchange options being brought to the program by a potential donor must have been listed on the kidney transplant waiting list at one of the transplant centers in our area before January 1, 2001. Living kidney donors may live outside the area.
● National Coalition on Donation ● American Kidney Fund ● Association of Organ Procurement Organizations ● Georgetown University Hospital ●
● John Hopkins Hospital ● Medical Eye Bank of Maryland & Washington Eye Bank ● National Kidney Foundation of Maryland ●
● National Kidney Foundation - National Capitol Area ● National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program ●
● Transplant Resource Center of Maryland ● University of Maryland Medical Center ● Washington Regional Transplant Consortium ●