While we hope we have constructed the most useful Guide to Living Donation on the web, here are some other sites you can visit for more information.

For data on living donation transplants at specific transplant centers, you might wish to visit the site that keeps track of their performance.

For more answers to your questions along with profiles of patients, donor families & professionals, see the Transplant Living section of the web site of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which operates with U.S. organ transplantation network.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides information and resources on organ donation and transplantation issues, and organ donation awareness initiatives, through its Organ Donation site, organdonor.gov.

The South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation (SEOPF), an association of transplant professional organizations in 19 states, formed the Living Organ Donor Network (LODN) in September 2000 to create a database of information on living kidney donors so their health can be tracked and analyzed by medical professionals.

SEOPF also has arranged for living kidney donors to obtain life, disability and medical insurance for complications which might arise from being a living kidney donor from AIG Insurance, and says it hopes to arrange similar insurance for living liver donors. SEOPF also maintains a forum where "individuals interested in living unrelated donation can pose questions, obtain information and access others who can help them to follow through on their desire to help someone in need."

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which oversees the distribution of cadaver organs, has a new web site that includes information and data on living organ donation.

If you know of another site that contains useful supplementary information for a person considering living donation, please email us at editor@transplantweek.org.

All information provided in this site is offered for educational purposes only, and it is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult your own physician or healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.