Kidney Transplant Can Feel Like a Lot. Clear Information for Every Step of the Journey. You may be here while learning about kidney disease, considering transplant, completing evaluation, waiting for a kidney, exploring living donation, recovering from transplant, caring for someone, or learning how to live well after transplant. A Place to Learn Before You Have to Decide.

Your Kidney Transplant Journey

Start with the stage that fits you today.

Interactive kidney transplant journey Eight clickable recipient stages: Kidney Failure, Dialysis, Transplant consideration, Evaluation, Waitlist, Surgery, Early recovery, and Long-term life after transplant. Living Donation and Caregivers & Families are also available as clickable pathways.
Every transplant journey is different. You may enter the process at a different point, move between stages, or never experience some of the stages shown here. Dialysis is not required before transplant for everyone. Use this roadmap as orientation, not as a prediction of exactly how your care will unfold.

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Book cover for The Kidney Transplant Roadmap

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The Kidney Transplant Roadmap

The book brings the journey together in one place for recipients, donors, caregivers, and families. The website is for orientation and practical tools; the book provides deeper step-by-step education.

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