Receiving a Kidney Transplant | Duke Health

At the Duke Kidney Transplant Center, our team of experts takes an individualized approach to surgery for every patient. We have performed thousands of complex kidney transplants, from multi-organ transplants to transplants on people turned down at other centers, and we offer living donor, deceased donor, paired donor, and HIV-positive transplants. Here Dr. John Roberts, a transplant specialist at Duke Health, along with other Duke kidney transplant providers and patients, talks about options for kidney transplant, the transplant process, specialized care for transplant patients, and more.

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00:00 How do I choose a center for a kidney transplant?
00:50 Can I get a kidney transplant with HIV or sickle cell disease?
01:20 How does BMI affect my chance of getting a kidney transplant?
01:45 Can I have a multi-organ transplant at Duke?
02:10 How do I get signed up for a kidney transplant?
02:34 What is a transplant coordinator?
03:12 What is living donation?
04:17 How do they test a deceased donor kidney?
04:45 What is the transplant surgery process like?
05:14 What is the post-kidney transplant process like?