Kidney Transplant
In case you are having permanent and advanced kidney failure, you should get kidney transplantation done. It requires the coordinated effort of the entire health care team which includes pharmacists, nephrologists, transplant co-ordinator, die titian and transplant surgeon. Your family members are also an important part of the entire team. You will be able to work with the entire team to acquire the best result through the knowledge of your treatment. You can thus lead an active and full life.
Your body cannot pass the fluids and harmful wastes when the kidney fails. Blood pressure increases and the body cannot build sufficient RBCs. Nausea, Fatigue, loss of appetite occurs. Hence, you require kidney transplant.
Treatment of failed kidney:
The three ways to do so are:
Peritoneal dialysis is a procedure which replaces the kidney function. It removes unnecessary chemicals, harmful wastes and extra water from the body. This kind of dialysis utilises your abdomen lining for filtering the blood. Such a lining is also known to be peritoneal membrane.
The function of peritoneal dialysis
Dialysate, a type of cleansing solution, passes to your abdomen by a special tube. Chemicals, fluids and wastes travels into the dialysate from the small blood vessels present in the peritoneal membrane. After few hours, the wastes are thrown out from your blood when the dialysate drains from the abdomen. After this your abdomen is filled with new and freah dialysate. The cleansing process starts again.
Preparation for peritoneal dialysis
Prior to the first treatment, a soft and a small tube, known as catheter is placed by a surgeon in your abdomen. The catheter aids in passing the dialysate from and to your peritoneal membrane.
Hemodialysis:
Hemodialysis is a process which filters and cleans your blood, irradiating extra fluids and salts as well as harmful wastes from your body. It can also regulate your blood pressure thus keeping your body in proper balance of the elements like sodium, chloride and potassium.
The working of hemodialysis
It utilises a special filter or dialyzer to purify your blood. The dialyzer is connected to the machine. The blood passes into the dialyzer through the tubes during the treatment. It can filter out the extra fluids and wastes. After that the fresh clean blood travels to other set of tubes back to your body.
Kidney transplant:
This is a surgical process through which the ruptured kidneys of a human being are substituted with a functional one, donor. The new kidney conducts the operations of the two damaged kidneys.
Why is the transplant done?
This transplant operation is executed when there is an irreversible filled kidney while the patient is on dialysis. CRF or Chronic Renal Failure can occur because of the following reasons:
The kidney transplant operation is not recommended for those who have:
The surgeon implants a fresh kidney inside the body between the abdomen and the upper thigh. He connects the vein of the fresh kidney and its artery to your body’s vein and artery. Your blood travels through the fresh kidney and functions like the old healthy kidney, passing urine. The new kidney can start its functions right away. It can also take a few weeks to form and pass the urine. The own old kidneys are left inside the body unless they cause high blood pressure or infection.
The preparation for transplant of kidney
The patient can receive the kidney from any of his family member. This type of donor is known as living-related donor. On the other hand, the patient can also receive a kidney from any person, who has expired recently. This kind of donor is known as cadaver donor. At times a very intimate friend or a spouse can donate the kidney. This type of donor is known as living unrelated donor.
It is of utmost important for the donors’ tissues and blood to match yours. This matching will prevent your immunity system from rejecting or fighting of the newly donated kidney. A laboratory will perform special blood cell test in order to enquire whether the body will be ready to accept the fresh kidney.
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Your Doctor’s Recommendation
Transplantation is not done frequently, they are done only when your kidneys are failing and by considering your treatment options you must start it. By depending on your specific situation it is decided that whether the transplantation is in your option or not. Everyone is not suitable for this transplantation process. Depending and by checking your conditions by the doctors, the doctors will decide whether you are okay or not for the transplantation process. In some condition transplantation becomes dangerous or unlikely to succeed.
Medical Evaluation
If your doctor says that transplantation is an option for you then your next step will be to go through a medical evaluation at a transplant hospital. Before the transplant there is a pre transplant evaluation which may require several visits which can be over a course of time for several weeks or even months. Blood will be drawn for tests and x-rays will also be taken. Blood tests will be done to confirm blood type and other matching factors which will determine whether your body will accept the kidney which is available.
There will be a medical team which will ensure that whether your body is okay for a surgery or not. If you have serious infection as cancer or significant cardiovascular disease, it will fail the transplantation. It will be ensured by the medical team that follow and understand the schedule for taking medicines.
If a kidney is donated by a family member or friend, that person will need to be evaluated thoroughly to see whether the kidney is a good match or not.
After the procedure:
For the first day after the surgery is completed the donor’s urine is drained by a catheter inside the urinary bladder. The donor may be allowed to walk after 24 hours after the removal of the catheter. Modifications in diet are not necessary and the patient will be fit to resume eating as soon as the anesthesia wears off. Not more than 2-3 days the patient is kept in the hospital.
On depending the condition the recipients needs to stay in the hospital for 3-7 days. A catheter is inserted in the bladder which can be removed after a couple of days. Generally the patient becomes fit to move as soon as the anesthesia wears off. For suppression of any rejection reaction to the foreign kidney the recipient is kept on medication. Usually it takes a month for complete recovery of the patient.
Risks involved?
The risks in the kidney operations are the same as they are in the other surgical procedure. Complications may rise in the case of administration of anesthesia. Bleeding may occur during the surgery and also the patient may contract infection. The transplant operation becomes highly risky if the foreign transplanted organ gets rejected by the recipient’s body.
Are there any other complications?
Some of the complications of the procedure are:
Post transplant Care
Regular treatment with immuno suppressant drugs is needed in case of long term care of the patient with a kidney transplant to ensure that the body doesn’t rejects the new kidney. In some cases these drugs are taken by the patient throughout the patient’s life. A kidney transplant increase life expectancy so, it is a much better option than dialysis. Without any special medication the donor can lead a normal life with one kidney.
Recovery from Surgery
Feeling sore and groggy after waking up is a very natural phenomenon after getting a major surgery. In some cases it is observed that the patient reports that they feel much better immediately after the surgery. If there are any complications you have stay in the hospital for weeks. Also if you feel great after waking up, you’ll need to stay in the hospital for recovery for about a week.
You will be helped and directed by the Geoherbal Team which will help you to take the right decisions. There are some basic guidelines to be followed before doing a transplant. Without any hesitation you may contact us or write to us for further information.
- What is kidney failure
- Treatment of failed kidney
- Haemodialysis
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Transplant of kidney
- Care post-transplant
- Recovery from the surgery
Your body cannot pass the fluids and harmful wastes when the kidney fails. Blood pressure increases and the body cannot build sufficient RBCs. Nausea, Fatigue, loss of appetite occurs. Hence, you require kidney transplant.
Treatment of failed kidney:
The three ways to do so are:
- Peritoneal dialysis
- Hemo dialysis
- Kidney transplant
Peritoneal dialysis is a procedure which replaces the kidney function. It removes unnecessary chemicals, harmful wastes and extra water from the body. This kind of dialysis utilises your abdomen lining for filtering the blood. Such a lining is also known to be peritoneal membrane.
The function of peritoneal dialysis
Dialysate, a type of cleansing solution, passes to your abdomen by a special tube. Chemicals, fluids and wastes travels into the dialysate from the small blood vessels present in the peritoneal membrane. After few hours, the wastes are thrown out from your blood when the dialysate drains from the abdomen. After this your abdomen is filled with new and freah dialysate. The cleansing process starts again.
Preparation for peritoneal dialysis
Prior to the first treatment, a soft and a small tube, known as catheter is placed by a surgeon in your abdomen. The catheter aids in passing the dialysate from and to your peritoneal membrane.
Hemodialysis:
Hemodialysis is a process which filters and cleans your blood, irradiating extra fluids and salts as well as harmful wastes from your body. It can also regulate your blood pressure thus keeping your body in proper balance of the elements like sodium, chloride and potassium.
The working of hemodialysis
It utilises a special filter or dialyzer to purify your blood. The dialyzer is connected to the machine. The blood passes into the dialyzer through the tubes during the treatment. It can filter out the extra fluids and wastes. After that the fresh clean blood travels to other set of tubes back to your body.
Kidney transplant:
This is a surgical process through which the ruptured kidneys of a human being are substituted with a functional one, donor. The new kidney conducts the operations of the two damaged kidneys.
Why is the transplant done?
This transplant operation is executed when there is an irreversible filled kidney while the patient is on dialysis. CRF or Chronic Renal Failure can occur because of the following reasons:
- Diabetes
- Kidney infection (pyelonethritis)
- Uncontrollable and extreme high blood pressure
- Inflammation of the filtering cells present in the kidney (glomerulonephritis)
- The kidneys get damaged because of the present of cyst, also known as polycystic kidney disease.
The kidney transplant operation is not recommended for those who have:
- Conditions like Osteomyelitis or a bone infection and tuberculosis
- Any kind of disease of lung, liver or heart
- Recent history record of cancer
The surgeon implants a fresh kidney inside the body between the abdomen and the upper thigh. He connects the vein of the fresh kidney and its artery to your body’s vein and artery. Your blood travels through the fresh kidney and functions like the old healthy kidney, passing urine. The new kidney can start its functions right away. It can also take a few weeks to form and pass the urine. The own old kidneys are left inside the body unless they cause high blood pressure or infection.
The preparation for transplant of kidney
The patient can receive the kidney from any of his family member. This type of donor is known as living-related donor. On the other hand, the patient can also receive a kidney from any person, who has expired recently. This kind of donor is known as cadaver donor. At times a very intimate friend or a spouse can donate the kidney. This type of donor is known as living unrelated donor.
It is of utmost important for the donors’ tissues and blood to match yours. This matching will prevent your immunity system from rejecting or fighting of the newly donated kidney. A laboratory will perform special blood cell test in order to enquire whether the body will be ready to accept the fresh kidney.
better health tours rewrite
Your Doctor’s Recommendation
Transplantation is not done frequently, they are done only when your kidneys are failing and by considering your treatment options you must start it. By depending on your specific situation it is decided that whether the transplantation is in your option or not. Everyone is not suitable for this transplantation process. Depending and by checking your conditions by the doctors, the doctors will decide whether you are okay or not for the transplantation process. In some condition transplantation becomes dangerous or unlikely to succeed.
Medical Evaluation
If your doctor says that transplantation is an option for you then your next step will be to go through a medical evaluation at a transplant hospital. Before the transplant there is a pre transplant evaluation which may require several visits which can be over a course of time for several weeks or even months. Blood will be drawn for tests and x-rays will also be taken. Blood tests will be done to confirm blood type and other matching factors which will determine whether your body will accept the kidney which is available.
There will be a medical team which will ensure that whether your body is okay for a surgery or not. If you have serious infection as cancer or significant cardiovascular disease, it will fail the transplantation. It will be ensured by the medical team that follow and understand the schedule for taking medicines.
If a kidney is donated by a family member or friend, that person will need to be evaluated thoroughly to see whether the kidney is a good match or not.
After the procedure:
For the first day after the surgery is completed the donor’s urine is drained by a catheter inside the urinary bladder. The donor may be allowed to walk after 24 hours after the removal of the catheter. Modifications in diet are not necessary and the patient will be fit to resume eating as soon as the anesthesia wears off. Not more than 2-3 days the patient is kept in the hospital.
On depending the condition the recipients needs to stay in the hospital for 3-7 days. A catheter is inserted in the bladder which can be removed after a couple of days. Generally the patient becomes fit to move as soon as the anesthesia wears off. For suppression of any rejection reaction to the foreign kidney the recipient is kept on medication. Usually it takes a month for complete recovery of the patient.
Risks involved?
The risks in the kidney operations are the same as they are in the other surgical procedure. Complications may rise in the case of administration of anesthesia. Bleeding may occur during the surgery and also the patient may contract infection. The transplant operation becomes highly risky if the foreign transplanted organ gets rejected by the recipient’s body.
Are there any other complications?
Some of the complications of the procedure are:
- Cancer which may develop in the cells of the kidney.
- Connections between the donor’s kidney and the recipient’s blood vessels that do not work properly
- Major bleeding which may require blood transfusion
- Infection happens in about 25% of the cases
Post transplant Care
Regular treatment with immuno suppressant drugs is needed in case of long term care of the patient with a kidney transplant to ensure that the body doesn’t rejects the new kidney. In some cases these drugs are taken by the patient throughout the patient’s life. A kidney transplant increase life expectancy so, it is a much better option than dialysis. Without any special medication the donor can lead a normal life with one kidney.
Recovery from Surgery
Feeling sore and groggy after waking up is a very natural phenomenon after getting a major surgery. In some cases it is observed that the patient reports that they feel much better immediately after the surgery. If there are any complications you have stay in the hospital for weeks. Also if you feel great after waking up, you’ll need to stay in the hospital for recovery for about a week.
You will be helped and directed by the Geoherbal Team which will help you to take the right decisions. There are some basic guidelines to be followed before doing a transplant. Without any hesitation you may contact us or write to us for further information.
