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By Ask the Doctors
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to a bonus edition of our monthly letters column. Our mailboxes are overflowing, so we’ll get right down to business.
— We recently wrote about living organ donation. That’s when a living person gives an organ, such as a kidney, or part of an organ, such as the liver, to another individual. The column led to a question from a reader in Pennsylvania: “Is there a minimum GFR to become a kidney donor?” she asked. “I recently filled out a registry form for a specific patient but forgot to ask about this.” Read the full story from UCLA Health.
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