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Nearly 20 years after advocating the need for organ donations, former Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle Lional Dalton is now in search of one.
In January 2020, Dalton was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure. End-stage kidney failure is the final stage of chronic kidney disease. Patients in this stage must receive dialysis or a kidney transplant in order to survive.
Dalton, 46, has been receiving dialysis for five hours a day, three days a week, according to ESPN’s Jamison Hensley.
Dalton is just one of the 650,000 individuals facing end-stage renal disease and one of 114,927 in need of a life-saving transplant.