Some people believe that you can live in a normal life after kidney transplant, and some believe that replace the failed kidney, and when the surgery recover, you can do anything you want.
But, is kidney transplant act as we imagine that it is the only effective method for end stage renal disease? Is kidney transplant as easy as we thought?
Then, we will talk tell you some fact about kidney transplant:
First, not all patients can do transplant.
There goes the rumor that if you have enough money and matched kidneys, you can do transplant right now. Actually, it is not the save.
Patients can not take transplant with the following diseases: uncontrolled chronic infection, abortive tuberculosis, active hepatic, peptic ulcer, therioma (malignant tumor ), mental disease(psychopathy), congestive heart failure and etc.
On this condition, even if you have a matched kidney and enough financial, the surgery can not be applied immediately. Medical treatment, or even dialysis will be used to adjust your physical condition to a better condition before transplant.
Second, transplant is to cut the failed kidney and plant a healthy one.
Well, transplant does not work that way. Transplant is to plant a healthy kidney in fossa iliaca without removing the failed kidneys.
Third, after transplant, we are a absolute healthy people that do not need medicine and treatment.
Patients who have done transplant have to taking medicine to protect the planted kidney from the attack of self immune system. Or, kidney can fail again. So, patients must take medicine to impress the immune system.
Fourth, how long can we survive after transplant?
Actually, it is uncertain. The survive rate and prognosis is closely related to patients’ life style and some details. For now, the success rate is 90%, survive rate, after one year is 85%, five years 60%, and 10 years, only 1%.
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