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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation Forum => Topic started by: bgp818489 on October 06, 2014, 03:54:51 PM

Title: I want to donate
Post by: bgp818489 on October 06, 2014, 03:54:51 PM

  I am seriously considering becoming a donor but have medical questions  considering donors capabilities. I consider myself in good health, but have had issues in the past. I had by-pass surgery 2 years ago, and keep my blood pressure in check with medications. Would these things preclude me from becoming a donor? I am 59 years of age, never involved with drugs and do not smoke. I am O+
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Title: Re: I want to donate
Post by: Clark on October 06, 2014, 06:57:21 PM

Best wishes. The only way to find out is to contact a transplant center and get started. If you're deferred, ask why, then be up front about your deferral at that center if you choose to persist and seek a different center, potentially with different criteria for acceptance. Please consider letting us know what you learn. Take care.

Title: Re: I want to donate
Post by: donor99 on October 08, 2014, 09:09:34 AM

Your cardiac history is an absolute contraindication to living donation. It is doubtful that any program would violate current guidelines to let you donate.

Title: Re: I want to donate
Post by: TaroTaoYin on October 11, 2014, 04:19:31 AM

You can easily explain it.I can't do it same you.