Kidney Transplant

Kidney Transplantation

It is treatment procedure of choice for various patients with end stage renal ailment.

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.

Cost of kidney transplant is quite reasonable and success rate is very high and comparable to the best in the world.

• 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.

Category:Dr. Amit Gupta (Nephrologist And Kidney Transplant Physician)