The wait for an organ transplant can be a long one but one Keller man is staying positive that he’ll be able to find a match. Hunter Johnson was an active 20-year-old when a sudden heart attack sent him to the hospital in early March. That’s when doctors discovered he has congenital end-stage renal disease, meaning he was born with…
Living donors are people who choose to donate one of their kidneys to someone they know or to a stranger.
"To avoid the waitlist and to get the best form of transplantation, living donor transplantation is the way to go," said Dr. Sridhar Allam, Medical Director of Transplant Services at Medical City Fort Worth's Transplant Institute. "Living donor transplants tend to work right away and they do last longer. Patients come off dialysis immediately and they get to keep their kidney longer than deceased donor transplant," said Dr. Allam.Johnson and his mother pray that someone, even a stranger, will consider becoming a donor.
"The fact that someone would have given up their kidney so that I can live, I would be truly grateful," said Johnson.
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