SIR I,M 59 Years Old Recently My Daughter Aged 28

Posted on Thu, 4 Oct 2018

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Question : SIR I,M 59 Years old recently my daughter aged 28 has been diagnosed with ckd 4
She needs transplant I,m ready to donate and went through blood check ups and was diagnosed thyroid 10.5 I,m taking my medication can I still donate a kidney I dont have any other problem pleas answer

Answered by Dr. Purva Patel (2 hours later)

Brief Answer:
ideally can not donate, but many centers do consider to donate.

Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome to Ask A Doctor service.
I have read your query and here is my advise.

* As per the international protocols, the donor should be in perfect health, so ideally you
can not donate her your kidney.

* Now there are various protocols followed by different institutes across the world as

@ Some of the centres consider controlled thyroid condition as normal to donate the
kidney.
@ Some centres being very precise for the criteria, refuse the same candidate ( usually if
there is associated goitre ).

So the same should be discussed with the treating nephrologist for precise guidelines.

Wish your daughter fine health.
Take care.

Regards.

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