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What happens when you have kidney failiure?
if your kidneys fail completely, then you can go on a transplant list and get a kidney transplant if your kidneys are failing the doctors will put you on dialysis ... trying to keep your blood clean... eventually your kidneys will fail and then you will get a transplant
What if the kidney transplantation is not working?
You can possibly die because your body can not flush out all the waste and urine. Alternate answer: If a kidney transplant fails the patient does have other options but action should probably be taken as quickly as possible. The failure of a kidney transplant means that the patient will either have to have another transplant or they will have to go back on dialysis until something else can be done. People can live normally with only one kidney.
Do doctors leave in the other kidney if one is transplanted?
When they do a kidney transplant, they just put in a new kidney. Doctors just attach the kidney to the vital organs needed to go to the bathroom. Doctors do leave the old, used kidney in.
What if my daughter has been having all sorts of problems since she received this kidney transplant?
You should go back to the transplant doctor if anything really serious develops. High temperatures etc... Some problems which initially appear very serious may in fact just be infections, which are treatable with high dose (possibly IV) antibiotics. Sometimes it may take a 2-3 months for a complete recovery from the transplant. If the transplant does not appear to work, another may be necessary.
How does a kidney transplant work?
The donor kidney is taken from the donor and placed into the recipient. The kidney is usually placed below one of the recipient's own kidneys. The donated kidney is connected to the recipient's renal artery and renal vein and also connected to the bladder. Often the donated kidney starts functioning as soon as it is connected to the blood supply. Click on 'related links' below and you can see a picture of a typical transplant situation
How do you treat kidney disease?
Chronic kidney disease is often treated with dialysis. It is manageable but not reversible.
What can you do if the kidney goes wrong?
If the kidney is not functioning properly, it is important to consult a healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment. Depending on the issue, treatment options may include medication, lifestyle changes, dialysis, or in severe cases, a kidney transplant. It is crucial to follow the guidance of healthcare providers to manage kidney problems effectively.
If someone has a liver transplant are they considered permanently disabled?
No. They will be fit and healthy after the transplant and can go back to living a normal life.
What are the five most common organ transplants?
Kidney and Liver. It's not that they're the most common operations, it's that the risk of death is lower. Heart transplants happen more than you'd think, but if it goes wrong you usually die. Whereas if a kidney transplant goes wrong, you can go back to dialysis until you try again. And you can also survive a few days with a failed liver, which gives you time to find another transplant. However you cannot survive a few days with a heart that doesn't work.
Does kidney give back pains?
Yes, kidney pathology can cause back pain.
How would I know if I might get kidney failure?
You must go to the doctor as soon as possible because your life is at risk, this isn't a joke kidney failure leads to death, your best choice is to take prescribed medicine to prolong your life or ask for kidney transplant
Which Organ transplant are the most successful?
To a certain extent that depends upon the definition of "successful" - it could be considered to be "lowest mortality rate", "longest life expectancy after surgery", "most likely to result in a functioning graft (transplanted organ)". Depending on which criteria you use, the answer will be slightly different.Kidney transplants have the lowest mortality rate due to a combination of reasons. Primarily, when a kidney is transplanted, the recipient's original kidneys are not removed. It is simply a case of adding a third, which hopefully works. But in turn, this does mean that if the transplanted kidney does not work, the patient should not be considerably worse off than they were pre-transplant. At this stage they would go back on dialysis until another kidney was found.Another reason for a low mortality rate for kidney transplants compared to other organ transplants is the availability of living-related donors. This means that there are more kidneys available for transplantation, which in turn means that patients are marginally "healthier" when they receive a kidney transplant, compared to transplant recipients of other organs. The healthier the patient is, the better the outcome after transplant (but of course, a completely healthy patient would not need a transplant. It's all relative.)However, the "lifespan" of a transplanted kidney is lowerthan for other organs such as livers and hearts (and this is why the answer to your question is not clear-cut). To clarify, I mean lifespan of the transplanted organ is lower, not the lifespan of the person who received the transplant; retransplantation of a failing graft is quite commonplace. (At which point the first transplanted kidney would probably be removed and replaced by another transplanted kidney).The reason behind a transplanted kidney's reduced lifespan is because kidneys are directly responsible for having to filter out immunosuppressives and other medication a transplant recipient has to take. These medications are necessary to ensure the short-term health of the graft but in the long run they cause some kidney damage (regardless of what organ was transplanted). But the damaging effect of the drugs (called "nephrotoxicity") is slightly magnified in kidney transplant recipients.Next to kidneys, livers have the second lowest mortality rate of transplant. This is slightly remarkable, since there is not an (good) equivalent of "dialysis" for liver failure, meaning there is no fallback to help a patient's health to remain stable. By the time a patient is ill enough to reach the top of a waiting list for a liver or heart transplant, they are very ill indeed. And at this point it's quite extraordinary that the numbers of patients surviving the transplant surgery is as high as it is.
