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Archive Home > 2007 > April > 05 > Registry aims to up organ donation

Registry aims to up organ donation

Statewide online list could increase transplant matches for those in need

By Kayley Mendenhall / The Bulletin
April 5, 2007

Without receiving the kidneys donated by her mother and brother, Elise Michaels said she probably would not be alive today.

The 48-year-old Bend woman had her first kidney transplant at age 27 in 1986 after her own kidneys failed, she said, from a series of infections. When the kidney her mother....

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