{"id":3379,"date":"2021-07-27T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:13:49","slug":"minnesota-mans-kidney-donation-to-a-stranger-helped-national-registry-hit-a-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2021\/07\/27\/minnesota-mans-kidney-donation-to-a-stranger-helped-national-registry-hit-a-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota man&#8217;s kidney donation to a stranger helped national registry hit a milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3379\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"7\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&#8220;A Minnesota man who donated a kidney to save another person&#8217;s life also set a record in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Rengstrof is a high school teacher with a mission, which started with a lesson learned after his father received a lung transplant two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A kidney donation really isn\u2019t that invasive of a surgery,&#8221; said Rengstrof. &#8220;And so I decided I had to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the kidney donation, Rengstrof became an altruistic donor. 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