Types of kidney transplant: A compact guide

by Manya Verma Health care and lifestyle

Kidney transplants have become more common than before with advancement in medical technology. Depending upon the source of the kidney, kidney transplants can be of two main types: 

·       Deceased Donor kidney transplant

When the kidney for transplant comes from a deceased who either before death enrolled for organ donation or whose family gave permission for donation of organ after death, it is called a deceased donor kidney transplant. As per a kidney specialist in Patna, main requirement is that the cause of death must not have affected the organ intended for transplant.

During the deceased donor kidney transplant the kidney is taken the deceased and surgically implanted into the body of a recipient whose natural kidneys have malfunctioned

As per experts from top kidney transplant hospitals in India, there are several types of deceased donor organs depending upon certain anatomic, biological, and social features of the donor organ. Some of the common deceased donor organs with descriptions are as follows:

 

1.    Standard Criteria Donors (SCD): Kidneys from someone who is under age 50 at the time of death and does not meet any of the criterion related to Expanded Criteria Donors.

2.    Expanded Criteria Donors (ECD): When organs are from donors above the age of 50 and meets the following criterions:

a.      History of high blood pressure,

b.    The donor passed away from a stroke

3.    Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD): Donation after Cardiac Death is of no use and the donor is removed from all medical life-sustaining measures.

 

As per a kidney specialist in Patna, the type of donor directly effects the success rate and waiting time for a kidney.

 

·       Living donor kidney transplant

As per a kidney doctor in Patna experts, this type of kidney transplant has a higher success rate than the deceased donor kidney transplant. In this type of transplant a kidney or an organ is transplanted surgically from a healthy person to the patient whose kidneys have failed. In most of the cases, the recipient and donor are next of kin. Also, the donated kidney functions almost immediately after transplant whereas in case of a deceased donor kidney it might take several days or weeks for the new kidney to function normally and higher rejection rate as well.

Specialists from a kidney hospital in Patna recommend scheduling such transplants can also allow the recipient and donor to have some time to prepare for the surgery. However, a deceased donor kidney is subjected to availability and hence cannot be scheduled in advance. The waiting time is also shorter in this type of transplant.

Though biological siblings are ideal living donors for kidney transplant but with medical innovation and advancement in drugs for kidney transplant in India, there are successful treatment for rejection prevention. This has increased the population of potential suitable donors and improved the success rates of kidney transplant from unrelated donors to as high as that from biological relatives.

 

Paras Institute of Kidney Transplant Paras HMRI Hospital, Patna specializes in providing affordable and efficient treatment to patient suffering from chronic kidney failure and complications of diabetes and other diseases.

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