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    Consumer Health Tips: Living donor transplant

a happy family in a living room; a woman hugging her mother, with her husband and children in the backgroundLiving donor transplant
There are about 6,000 organ transplants from living donors in the U.S. each year. Kidney and liver are the most common types of living donor organ procedures, but living people also can donate blood, skin, bone marrow and other tissues for transplantation. Learn more about the different categories of living organ donation.

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