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Kidney paired donation

| Published: July 30, 2012 Comment on this article

The Alliance for Paired Donation is a nonprofit organization that serves kidney patients through technology and education. The organization provides a nationwide computer matching program for kidney paired donation. The organization has invested thousands of dollars to create this match program. The alliance also assists patients who are unable to pay for the cost of their post-surgery medications, donors who sustain an injury during their donor operation, or donor/recipient pairs needing assistance with travel expenses related to their transplant. The organization's website is www.paireddonation.org.

photo - Liz Gay meets Michalis Helmis at a hospital in Toledo for the first time. Gay, of Woodward, made the decision to donate her kidney to a stranger, and it turned out to be Helmis. The donation sparked the first intercontinental kidney exchange along with a chain of kidney donations. <strong> - Courtesy of Liz Gay</strong>

Liz Gay meets Michalis Helmis at a hospital in Toledo for the first time. Gay, of Woodward, made the decision to donate her kidney to a stranger, and it turned out to be Helmis. The donation sparked the first intercontinental kidney exchange along with a chain of kidney donations. - Courtesy of Liz Gay

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