KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

What is kidney transplant?

• An operation • New kidneys

During kidney transplant surgery, a healthy kidney (donor kidney) replaces your own diseased kidneys, which may or may not be removed.

Donors

• 2 types

Living Cadaver

• Tissue type• Blood type • Rejection• Heart or lung disease

Surgery • 3 hours• Lower abdomen• The ureter The

bladder• Filtering, removing

wastes and producing urine

Expecting After Surgery

• Chronic rejection• Taking medicines

How well it works?

• Living longer • The most successful

Father mother brother or sister Living donors

Risks

• Rejection • Some infections• Bleeding• Reaction to the anesthesia • Failure

Our references

• http://www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/TransplantInstitute/Kidney/TheBenefitsofTransplantversusDialysis.aspx

• http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/kidney-transplant-20666

Prepared by

• Merve KASIMOĞULLARI• Efe DEMİR• Muhammed KILIÇ