Kidney transplant procedure steps
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Renal Transplantation
Introduction
Renal transplantation (RT) is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
Kidneys can be donated from either living donors or deceased donors, with the majority of renal transplants from deceased donors.
Deceased donors are either Donation after Brainstem Death (DBD) or Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD).
Living-donor transplants account for up to 30% of all kidney transplantations, either related or unrelated, performed as a laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (rarely this is done as an open nephrectomy in modern practice).
One year survival for DBD transplant recipients is around 97% and for living donor transplant recipients is around 99%.
Indications
All patients with end stage renal failure (GFR<15 ml/min) or those with CKD stage 4 (GFR 15-29 ml/minute) with progressive disease should be assessed for renal transplantation.
Contraindications, both absolute and relative, to kidney transplantation are shown in Table 1.
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