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The risk of major complications for people who donate a kidney via laparoscopic surgery is minimal. That is the conclusion of a 20-year Mayo Clinic study of more than 3,000 living kidney donors. Only 2.5% of patients in the study experienced major complications, and all recovered completely.

 Cancer, infections and heart disease pose the greatest risk to kidney transplant recipients―not organ rejection―according to a recently published Mayo Clinic study. Researchers discovered that recipient death due to factors other than organ rejection is the leading cause for transplanted kidney loss. Only 1 in 4 transplanted kidney losses were caused by organ rejection.

If you’re a kidney transplant patient, your chances of living a longer life are improving, according to a recent review published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Amy Infanger had a 1 in 3,000 chance of finding a kidney that her body would accept. Thanks to a living donor transplant chain that spanned across the country, she has a new kidney and a new lease on life.