Kidney Transplantation

Kidney is one of the most vital organs in human body. It is responsible to perform an important function of the body. It filters waste from your blood and excretes that waste out of the body in the form of urine. Kidney also helps the human body to maintain the body fluid and electrolyte balance. A kidney transplant is also known as a renal transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery used to insert the healthy kidney to a patient. Donors are typically family members or persons who are no longer live.

A kidney transplant is surgery to place a healthy kidney from a donor into your body. A donor is a person who has just died or a living person, most often a family member. A kidney from someone who has just died is a deceased donor kidney. However, not every patient is suitable for kidney transplant surgery and procedure because of its limitations.

Types of Kidney Transplantation

• Deceased-Donor (formerly known as cadaveric) where organ from brain dead individual is utilized.
• Living-donor transplantation organ from related (living-related) or non-related (living-unrelated) donor depending on whether a biological relationship exists between the donor and recipient is used

Precaution Before Kidney Transplantation

• The donor should not be diabetic.
• The donor should be healthy and also typically blood relative in family or brain dead cadavaric donor.
• There is also a big shortage of organ donors.
• After transplant, life long medicines are required along with periodic checkups with specialists to avoid rejection of the transplanted kidney.