{"id":24583,"date":"2014-07-03T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/140703142156-htm\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:21:00","slug":"140703142156-htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=24583","title":{"rendered":"America&apos;s largest single-site kidney transplant chain under way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one living donors have changed the lives of 21 recipients so far as part of the nation\u2019s longest ongoing single-center paired kidney transplant chain, which is currently under way at an American hospital. The chain was started by a woman who wanted to donate a kidney to a stranger in need. In a paired transplant chain, a donation like this can set off a series in which family or friends of recipients give a kidney to another person in need &#8212; essentially paying donations forward on behalf of a loved one.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/07\/140703142156.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.sciencedaily.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one living donors have changed the lives of 21 recipients so far as part of the nation\u2019s longest ongoing single-center paired kidney transplant chain, which is currently under way at an American hospital. The chain was started by a woman who wanted to donate a kidney to a stranger in need. In a paired transplant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[15108,15111,2300,15109,15110,11854],"class_list":["post-24583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-americaaposs","tag-chain","tag-kidney","tag-largest","tag-singlesite","tag-transplant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}