Kidney transplant
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End stage kidney disease is a not-so-uncommon problem that we come across these days. Kidney transplant refers to transplanting a healthy kidney from one donor to the patient with kidney failure. The donor kidney may be from a live related donor or from the brain dead unrelated individuals.
Patients who undergo kidney transplantation need to be on immune-suppressive medicines. A thorough medical check up is mandatory before transplantation to ensure that the individual is healthy enough to withstand the procedure and also to make sure that the patient would otherwise live long enough to reap the maximum benefits of such major surgical procedure.
