Question

How successful is a kidney transplant?

Answer 1

Kidney transplant:

1. Kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs that filter and remove wastes from the bloodstream.
2. The renal disease occurs when the kidneys lose their ability to function and high levels of waste accumulate in the bloodstream.
3. A kidney transplant is recommended when the kidneys fail and no other treatment options are available.
4. It is the surgical procedure in which a healthy kidney obtained from a living or deceased donor is placed in a diseased person.
5. The transplantation offers the patients with better quality of life and lowers the treatment cost.
6. In order to replace two malfunctioning kidneys, one transplanted kidney is enough to substitute.
7. The success rate of kidney transplants is 98.11% for living donor kidney transplants while it is 94.88% success rate for transplants from a deceased donor.
8. Multiple transplants can be done in case a previous one fails.