KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

The Family of the donor patients is one of the important issue. This is also a way to build a success to a kidney Transplantation. Proper explanation to them (family) may lead to a quick approval, most likely a patients of a vehicular accident while patients are still alive.

The one-year survival rate for kidney transplant patients is about 95 percent.

Some kidney transplant patients have survived more than 25 years. Because people have two kidneys but need only one. About one-third of transplanted kidneys come from living relatives and about two-thirds are from someone who recently died.

Many patients whose kidney failure was cause by diabetes mellitus receive a pancreas normally secretes insulin, a substance that helps the body use and store sugars. In some diabetic, the body's immune system destroys insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas. In many cases, the disease can be controlled with shots of insulin. However, if the diabetic requires a kidney transplant, the surgeon will often transplant a pancreas at the same time.

Kidneys are the most common organs to be transplanted. Kidneys remove waste products from the blood stream. If they fail, often as a result of diabetes mellitus or cancer, a person can die from the buildup of this toxic materials.

The waste products can be removed artificially through a process called kidney dialysis, but the patients must be hooked up to the dialysis machine two to three times each week for as long as 12 hours at a time.

Kidney transplant free the recipients from dependence on dialysis. If the kidney is rejected, the patient must go back on dialysis or receive another transplant.

Help packages for the kidney donors

Compensation of Lost Wages
Kidney problem is one of the most common issue at this time here in the Philippines. Some people donates their kidney, some people force themselves to sold their kidney, past and easy money they can get with the help of a sales agent. Most of them think that human can live normally with just one kidney,

Promoting Kidney donation is one of the solution to achieve the goal of many Foundation. giving help to the family of kidney donors is a big help, for the donor itself, most for the family, instead of selling their organs without knowledge of what will happened next after the kidney transplantation. (exploitation of human kidney trafficking)

Help packages for the donors and for the family will create a good reason to stop but not all, say lessen the the human organ trafficking. Compensation of lost wages from the donors will be given to the family, assistance needed by the donors like , medicine and other maintenance needs. good for the required time table both parties agreed upon.

POST OPERATION LAST ABOUT THREE HOURS

The donor kidney will be placed in the lower abdomen and its blood vessels connected to arteries and veins in the recipient's body. When this is complete, blood will be allowed to flow through the kidney again, so the ischemia time is minimized. In most cases, the kidney will soon start producing urine. Since urine is sterile, this has no effect on the operation. The final step is connecting the ureter from the donor kidney to the bladder.
Depending on its quality, the new kidney usually begins functioning immediately. Living donor kidneys normally require 3-5 days to reach normal functioning levels, while cadaveric donations stretch that interval to 7-15 days. Hospital stay is typically for four to seven days. If complications arise, additional medicines may be administered to help the kidney produce urine.
Medicines are used to suppress the immune system from rejecting the donor kidney. These medicines must be taken for the rest of the patient's life. The most common medication regimen today is : tacrolimus, mycophenolate, and prednisone. Some patients may instead take cyclosporine, rapamycin, or azathioprine. Cyclosporine, considered a breakthrough immunosuppressive when first discovered in the 1980's, ironically causes nephrotoxicity and can result in iatrogenic damage to the newly transplanted kidney. Blood levels must be monitored closely and if the patient seems to have a declining renal function, a biopsy may be necessary to determine if this is due to rejection or cyclosporine intoxication.
Acute rejection occurs in 10% to 25% of people after transplant during the first sixty days. Rejection does not necessarily mean loss of the organ, but may require additional treatment