Myths and Facts about Kidney Transplantation

Kidney transplantation is giving a healthy kidney to a person who is suffering from Kidney failure. A successful kidney transplant can enable you to live the kind of life you had before you developed kidney disease. A kidney that has to be transplanted comes from a person who had died, a “deceased donor”, or from a living donor.

Kidney transplantation is quite common nowadays but people have still several myths related to kidney transplantation. Erase all the misconceptions away you have heard about Kidney Transplantation, as we are filtering out top 5 facts from some of the most common myths here:

• Anybody can be a living donor

Only a healthy person can become a ‘living donor’. As the Indian transplant act says, a living donor can only be the recipient’s first-degree blood relative. The relatives who are allowed to donate include mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, and spouse. In the case of there being no first relatives, a legal donor is arranged.

• The patient can die if the transplant fails

No. The recipient can continue or restart dialysis and try another transplant.

• Dialysis is better than a transplantation

Kidney transplantation is often preferable to dialysis. Dialysis can deliver only 10-20% of the renal function. While a transplant can manage 50% of the renal function. It also provides a better quality of life than dialysis.

• Kidney disease can be easily recognized

96% of patients with Kidney disease don’t realize it in the early stages as it damages your Kidney slowly over time. It can be caught by simple blood or urine test and some specific symptoms.

• Dialysis is a cure for Kidney disease

There is no cure for Kidney failure, it can only be treated. Dialysis does help but it is not an assured way to completely get rid of ESRD (End-Stage-Renal-Disease).

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Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779960/