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Kidney Transplant Complications

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Kidney Transplant saves precious lives. But it also qualifies as a major surgery involving complicated procedures. This holds true for both the donor kidney retrieval surgery and implantation of the donor kidney into the recipient (patient). Quite naturally, both surgeries may entail risks / possible complications during and after the procedures, both in the short & long term. It is these possible risks/complications of Kidney Transplant are what we aim to walk you through, today.

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We will first cover the risk-profile associated with Kidney Donation followed by that for the Kidney Recipient. The article presents the list of complications as per the time points at which they usually appear after the surgery. Read on to get a comprehensive insight on the what-why-how of these complications below.

NOTE: This article only covers complications from the kidney transplant procedure. Adverse effects expected from anti-rejection & other medications that a kidney recipient is put on, will be explained in a separate article.

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Kidney Transplant – Basics

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1. What is Kidney Transplant?

Kidneys are essential for sustaining life. Individuals who end up with very little or almost no kidney function, either due to an incurable disease, birth defect or extensive injury, require a solution to regain/assist with their kidney function. Kidney Transplant is one of the methods to do so.

This involves a surgical procedure of “transferring” a healthy, matched kidney from a willing donor to “implant” it in the belly of the patient requiring the organ. Hence the name, Transplant.

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Love Thy Kidneys!

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I have been thinking about this for a while now. How would it be, if we decided to assign a gender to our organs based on their “inherent nature”. Without hesitation, I’ll call our kidneys, female.

Somewhat like our Mums actually! (Yeah, you read that right).

This cute, smooth, bean-shaped major organ-pair is:

  •  “Effortlessly multitasking”
  •  “Hygiene-conscious”
  •  “Meticulous”
  •  “Complex yet super-organized”
  •  “Layered & difficult to understand at times”
  •  “Fantastically resilient to all external stress” (up until it gets unbearable of course)

and above all

  •  “Holds the entire organ-family from “falling apart”

 

All quintessential mommy traits eh?

Welcome Smiley kidneys in ATK

Time to bring kidneys to the limelight for all she’s worth then?

So, watch this space for more to obtain a medically accurate understanding of this beautiful but highly underrated organ.

In this portal, you will find: –

So what are you waiting for?

Explore https://www.allthingskidney.com today.

Unleash the power of knowing. Beat the apprehension/confusion/ignorance surrounding kidneys in health & disease.

Stay well, all of you!

 

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