What is kidney transplant?
The kidney transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with the end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is commonly classified as deceased-donor, transplantation is contingent on the basis of the donor organ. Living-donor renal transplants are additionally characterized as inherently connected or non-related transplants, dependent on whether a biological relationship happens between the donor.
What is the main source of kidneys for transplant?
Sources of Donor Kidneys. Donor’s kidneys originate from two causes: deceased organ donors or living donors. Deceased donors are persons who must be suffering brain dead after a head trauma or medical problem in the brain such as bleeding.
What is kidney transplant?
Living Donors:-
Indian Law authorities near and dear ones to donate organs (kidney, liver, bone marrow). Parents, siblings, son, daughter, grandparents, and spouse are preserved as ‘near relatives’.
If a family fellow cannot donate a kidney because of difference in blood group and if there is another brace with a similar problem, the donors can be bartered for the purpose of kidney transplantation. This is entitled a Swap Transplant.
Living donors are exhaustively investigated by the surgeon. The donors should be in decent overall physical and mental health and free from abandoned high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, HIV, hepatitis, and organ diseases.
Living donors should be older than 18 years of age and well-matched with the anticipated transplant aspirant. The donors are separated from medical and psychosocial aspects.
Deceased donor:-
A deceased donor is a person who is brain dead
A person is dead when his heart stops beating enduringly
A person is dead even when the brain is dead but the heart is functioning. At this stage, the heart can function for hours or days. During this period, if the family consents, various organs, and tissues can be used for transplantation
One can register for a cadaver organ with the ZTCC- Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (city waiting list) through the transplant coordinator and the Nephrologist at the hospital.
