Each registered organ donor can save up to 9 lives

At the Ochsner Transplant Institute in New Orleans, living kidney and living liver donors create lifesaving opportunities for adult and pediatric patients waiting for transplants. By donating a kidney or a portion of your liver, you can give someone a second chance at life. Ochsner’s Living Donor Programs are designed to reduce wait times and improve outcomes, offering transplant recipients the chance to receive a timely transplant from a healthy, living donor.

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The Ochsner Transplant Institute has performed over 10,000 organ transplants becoming the first and only center in Louisiana to reach this milestone and joining a small group of high-volume programs nationwide. Ochsner offers a variety of organ transplant programs, such as: 

• Liver transplant
• Pediatric liver transplant
• Kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant
• Lung transplant
• Heart transplant
• Pediatric heart transplant
• Living donor liver transplant
• Living donor kidney transplant

• Anyone can register to become an organ donor: Regardless of age or medical history, you can sign up to be a donor. Medical professionals evaluate donation possibilities at the time of death, and only a few conditions, such as active cancer or a systemic infection, may prevent donation.
• Organ donation has no age limit: The oldest recorded donor in the U.S. was 93 years old. The health and condition of your organs at the time of death are what matters most.
• Religious support: Most major religions in the U.S. encourage organ donation as an act of compassion and generosity.
• Life-saving care comes first: Medical teams prioritize saving your life above all else. Organ donation is only considered after all life-saving efforts have been exhausted.
• No costs to families: Organ donation incurs no cost to donors or their families.
• Protected from exploitation: Federal laws strictly prohibit the buying or selling of organs in the United States. Violations carry severe penalties.
• Organ donation typically occurs after brain death, a condition that is final and irreversible: This differs from a coma, from which recovery is sometimes possible.

Sign up to become an organ donor and save up to 9 lives.

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