To ensure you remain an adequate candidate while on the transplant waiting list, be certain to:

Stay as fit as possible, follow a routine exercise plan, avoid smoking, manage your weight to stay below target, follow your specific diet, and emotional health.

Keep up with your primary care physician and routine preventative healthcare visits, including dental checkups, flu shots, heart testing including EKGs and stress testing, colorectal exams, mammograms and pap smears for women, and prostate exams for men.

If you are prescribed a new medication, receive a blood transfusion, or are subject to an injury, illness or other health change, contact your transplant care team or coordinator immediately and ensure the attending physician sends your medical treatment records to the transplant team.

While on the transplant waiting list, you will be required to give monthly blood samples. If you are on dialysis, your dialysis center will complete this task for you during a regularly scheduled visit. If you are not on dialysis, your transplant center will help you get these blood samples done monthly.

Contact EBNMG and transplant center immediately if your telephone, email or mailing address changes, so they can update your record.

EBNMG provides you a full spectrum of information and support through our care teams as well as our Health Library. In addition, other groups in the community provide transplant patients and their families guidance and emotional and/or financial support before, during and after the transplant decision. Please be advised that these groups cannot make any clinical recommendations to you.

• California Living Donation

• Transplant Living

• Find A Living Donor

• CPMC Living Donor Site