What is Kidney Transplant?
A kidney transplant is surgery in which a person who has permanent kidney failure receives a healthy kidney from another person. This single, healthy kidney takes on the workload of both of the....
Follow up: After Kidney Transplant
Before you are discharged from the hospital, your doctor will give you prescriptions for several anti-rejection (immunosuppressive) drugs. These medicines decrease your body's immune response and redu....
What is Kidney Transplant used for?
Kidney transplants are used to treat advanced, permanent kidney failure, also called chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease. In people with permanent kidney failure, both kidneys lose their ....
How is Kidney Transplant done?
Dead Kidney Donor Once a good donor match is found, the transplant team will notify you immediately. You will travel to the transplant center, where you will have some brief medical tests. Thes....
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