We are raising $7 million to build a state-of-the-art clinic and we are 90 per cent there. Help us enhance and expand our Kidney Transplant and Care Centre.

Our teams of nephrologists, surgeons, social workers, pharmacists, educators and scientists are dedicated to a single field of research and practice: kidneys. No hearts, lungs or livers. Just kidneys.

Since we began more than 50 years ago, we have been pioneers in care.

· 1ST IN CANADA to perform a kidney auto-transplant using robotic surgery.

· 1ST IN CANADA, with Toronto General Hospital, to perform a “kidney swap,” where a living kidney donor who is incompatible with the recipient exchanges kidneys with another incompatible donor/ recipient pair.

· 1ST IN ONTARIO to use minimally invasive surgical techniques on living kidney donors.

· 1ST IN NORTH AMERICA, and only hospital in Canada, to use technology that allows patients to receive a kidney from a donor with a different blood type.

· 1ST IN THE WORLD to use painless photo-acoustic imaging rather than painful needle biopsies to assess the extent of kidney damage.

In North America, we have the highest transplant success rates. Now, we need a bigger, state-of-the-art facility to accommodate the surging demand.

In Canada, one in 10 people has kidney disease, a chronic disease with no chance of remission.

Because of an aging population, increasing rates of obesity and an epidemic of diabetes (the leading cause of kidney disease), the numbers are only going up – an astounding 32 per cent over the last decade.

The new centre will provide our kidney patients with the care that will give them back their lives.

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