Kidney Transplant:

• Kidney transplant is a surgical procedure in which a kidney from either a healthy living donor or deceased donor (cadaver) is implanted in to the renal failure patient. Kidney transplant has many limitations like-
• Arranging for a kidney from relatives or close friends. This at times becomes a Herculean task.

Diagram1. showing the Transplanted Kidney in the Patient’s body.

Alternatively the patients can live on dialysis.
It is very important to understand that without dialysis or transplant, the end stage kidney patient cannot survive at all.
So although dialysis is expensive, at times painful and time consuming but it is the only way to live for many years in the face of ESRD

 

Team of Specialists:

• Dr. Manju Aggarwal Director Nephrology View Profile