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What is some advantage for donating a kidney alive?
If a kidney is taken from a live donor it is much healthier and has a better chance of being accepted by the recipient's body than a kidney from a dead donor. For the donor, this does involve major surgery, so it's a bit of a disadvantage to the living donor.
What is Kidney transplantation?
Kidney transplantation involves surgically attaching a functioning kidney, or graft, from a brain dead organ donor (a cadaver transplant), or from a living donor, to a patient
What is a cadaver kidney?
A kidney from a brain-dead organ donor used for purposes of kidney transplantation.
How is kidney transplant done?
Based on the source of donated kidney, kidney transplant can be classified as deceased donor or living donor transplant. Answer: To the question of HOW a kidney transplant is done. The donor kidney will be extracted including part of the urinary tract and vein/arteries. The blood is extracted from the kidney and it is flushed clean. Then transported on ice to where the recipient is. The donor kidney is transplanted into the person in their lower abdomen. They join the veins/artery etc to the recipients, having disconnected them from the existing bad kidney. They do not take out the recipients bad kidneys (unless it has tumour) but leaves them there, as no point in performing unnecessary surgery.
Can a kidney donor drink alcohol after operation?
no
What are kidney implants?
Kidney of a donor is implanted in recipient human who has non functional/ defective/damaged kidney.
The legal aspects of the kidney transplant?
As soon as the kidney is inside the recipient, the donor has no legal claim to it. I think this will also apply to living donor liver transplants.
What is cadaver kidney transplant?
It means you are receiving a kidney from a deceased person, not a living donor.
Can a nephrectomy remove a healthy kidney?
It is also used to remove a healthy kidney from a donor for the purposes of kidney transplantation
Does pre-hypertension disqualify one from being a live kidney donor?
Not unless the hypertension has actually resulted in damage to the kidney. If the hypertension is relatively controlled, your kidney function is fine and your overall health is fine, there should be no reason for you not to be a living kidney donor.
How is transplant done?
Based on the source of donated kidney, kidney transplant can be classified as deceased donor or living donor transplant. Answer: To the question of HOW a kidney transplant is done. The donor kidney will be extracted including part of the urinary tract and vein/arteries. The blood is extracted from the kidney and it is flushed clean. Then transported on ice to where the recipient is. The donor kidney is transplanted into the person in their lower abdomen. They join the veins/artery etc to the recipients, having disconnected them from the existing bad kidney. They do not take out the recipients bad kidneys (unless it has tumour) but leaves them there, as no point in performing unnecessary surgery.
How does one get involved in kidney donation?
One can get involved in kidney donation by becoming an organ donor. One must register in his or her state to become an organ donor at a local DMV or online.
