Living Donor Follow-up Care

Our team will see you within two weeks of discharge to assess your health and then again at six months, one year and two years after donation. It is important that you keep these appointments to monitor your health back to baseline. If you feel ill and need additional follow-up at any time, you should not hesitate to contact the transplant center. It is strongly recommended that you establish care with a primary care physician for lifelong monitoring and maintain health insurance as a living donor. 

Long-term complications from living kidney donation are rare. Overall healthy people who donate a kidney recover and lead normal lives; after surgery, the remaining kidney tends to increase in size to compensate for the loss of the other kidney. Additionally, living donors undergo a thorough screening to make sure they are not at increased risk for kidney disease in the future. This also helps to ensure that long-term complications are unlikely.