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it all depends on your situation. It is said that it is more painful for the donor than the recipient. As the recipient allow me to tell you that is not true. My mother was the kidney donor and she was able to leave the hospital about a week later. After the surgery your not allowed to pick up above 5 pounds for a while and you are of course sore. Since you will only have one kidney, the kidney you still have will grow to compensate for the loss of the transplanted kidney. Though back then is still a little fuzzy for me, I want to say that you will be back at work within 6 weeks. If you are considering being a donor, please don't change your mind due to the information above. I was diagnosed with End Stage Renal Failure when I was 15 years old. I was told I had less than a month. I, of course, survived. But I was forced to go on emergency peritoneal dialysis which saved my life but was nearly unbearable. My mom was able to give me her kidney and gave me life for the second time. Since then, I graduated high school, i played captain on the volleyball team, I am now in my sophmore year in college looking to become a nurse for kids suffering the same disease I did. There is a waiting list with hundreds of thousands of names of people awaiting an organ transplant. tens of thousands die at the very least each year, because people are to afraid of the temporary pain that will save anothers life. Good Luck to you and God Bless.
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Is a universal blood donor also a universal organ donor?
No. The blood type is one factor considered in matching transplant donors and recipients in some transplants. Most types of transplant use another system of tissue typing.
How much does a new lung for a lung transplant cost?
It is against the law in the US to sell human organs for transplant. That is why they are called organ DONOR programs.
What rights do medical personnel have when a person has indicated willingness to donate with a donor card?
their name has to be entered to a donor register and the family member of the transplant recipient has to be notified.
How long can someone live after a kidney transplant?
about 6 weeks and up
Which tissues have been transplanted since 1950?
1954: First successful kidney transplant by Joseph Murray (Boston, U.S.A.) 1966: First successful pancreas transplant by Richard Lillehei and William Kelly (Minnesota, U.S.A.) 1967: First successful liver transplant by Thomas Starzl (Denver, U.S.A.) 1967: First successful heart transplant by Christiaan Barnard (Cape Town, South Africa) 1970: First successful monkey head transplant by Robert White (Cleveland, U.S.A.) 1981: First successful heart/lung transplant by Bruce Reitz (Stanford, U.S.A.) 1983: First successful lung lobe transplant by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada) 1986: First successful double-lung transplant (Ann Harrison) by Joel Cooper (Toronto, Canada) 1987: First successful whole lung transplant by Joel Cooper (St. Louis, U.S.A.) 1995: First successful laparoscopic(internal abdominal examination) live-donor nephrectomy(removal of kidney) by Lloyd Ratner and Louis Kavoussi (Baltimore, U.S.A.) 1998: First successful live-donor partial pancreas transplant by David Sutherland (Minnesota, U.S.A.) 1998: First successful hand transplant (France) 2005: First successful partial face transplant (France) 2006: First successful penis transplant (China)
What is cadaver kidney transplant?
It means you are receiving a kidney from a deceased person, not a living 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 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.
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
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 are the requirements for kidney transplant?
Well obviously your kidney has to be failing. but other than that you have to have below 30% function in your kidney. Note: you can survive with only 1 kidney so its more like below 30% function in 1 kidney When your kidney function is down to 12 -15 % then you will need to do dialysis or have a kidney transplant. For a transplant the donor's kidney has to be suitable for you. Blood types and tissues types are matched to get as close a match as possible. Some body like a close relative is a good donor. The donor should have no major health problems and the recipient should have no other major health problems apart from the kidney failure.
How can a person with failed kidneys be saved?
whoever has a good kidney they can donate theirs Dialysis or kidney transplant. For a transplant, a willing donor with the same blood type has to be found. This could take years.
What is domino transplant?
A domino kidney paired exchange starts with a non-directed or altruistic donor. Instead of just one person benefiting from their donation, this donor can allow many incompatible pairs to be transplanted. The difference in the example shown below from the "Kidney Paired Exchange" is that Donor #2 is not compatible with either recipient #1 or #2. As such, the altruistic donor allows the other pairs to be exchanged, and have the domino effect.
Is it illegal to receive a kidney transplant in the us?
No, of course not.Added: It is if you receive it from "outside" the designated organ donor system.
What is the life expectancy of a patient with stage 3 kidiney disease?
what is the life expectancy of a kidney transplant patient with a living donor
What organization do patients register with to wait for a donated kidney?
Patients with chronic renal disease who need a transplant and do not have a living donor registered with United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to be placed on a waiting list for a cadaver kidney transplant.
How much longer does a live donor kidney transplant last OPPOSED to a cadaver donor?
That is difficult to say as there are other factors that need taking into account. But a kidney from a living donor should last at least half as long again or more, assuming most other factors are the same.
