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If you donated your kidney to a sick relative and they died, could you get your kidney back?
If you donated a kidney to a relative and they died, say in a car accident could you get your kidney back? This is presuming the kidney is suitable for transplant. You may have donated it to your relative but dont want anyone else to have it, plus you would only have one left and a second would surely be handy.
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Sorry, James Clark, but no, it wouldn't work that way. :(
Source(s): Nurse. - abijannLv 71 decade ago
No, the organ would not be returned to your body.
Transplanted patients are placed on anti-rejection drugs.
This suppresses his immune system far enough down to
stop the organ from going into rejection...however, he still
has a lower amount of white blood cells that are still
dealing with this organ being inside of him. You cannot
completely wipe out the immune system and live.
The organ would not be used again for transplantation.
