Rhode Island Hospital
Living Donor Transplant Program
Donor Guide
Risks of Living Donation
Usually, the operation involves no serious risk for the healthy
donor. The procedure carries the same risk as anyone undergoing
general anesthesia. Major complications due to kidney donation are
rare, 1 in 1,000 cases.
Long-term problems are minimal but some have suggested there may
be a small increase risk of developing high blood pressure or excretion
of protein in their urine. None of these, however, have been conclusively
shown to affect the long-term health of donors.
Donors are restricted from contact sports that pose a risk of trauma
to the remaining kidney. Some occupations, such as the police, fire
and military, have been known to deny employment to people with
one kidney.
The kidney donation process 
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