Can People with Diabetes Receive Kidney Transplant

In recent years, Kidney Transplant success rate has increased greatly for the application of immunosuppressive drugs. For the patients with End Stage Renal Failure, Kidney Transplant is the main replacement therapy for them. However, for the special disease conditions of Diabetes, the patients with End Stage Renal Failure caused by Diabetes generally are not recommended to receive Kidney Transplant.

1. After Kidney Transplant, the patients need to use a large dosage of adrenal cortex hormonem. It can make it very difficult to control blood sugar.

2. The patients with Diabetes are usually complicated with neurogenic cystitis, which can influence the function of transplanted kidneys.

3. The immunity of the patients with Diabetes is usually very weak. Therefore, it is very likely for them to have infection thus decreasing the success rate of Kidney Transplant.

4. The patients with Diabetes are often accompanied by serious vascular diseases, which can shorten the life expectancy of the patients.

5. The blood vessels condition of the patients with Diabetes is usually bad. It can cause influence on the operation of Kidney Transplant.

6. If the patients can not control their blood sugar very well after Kidney Transplant, it will cause kidneys to fail once again.
Based on some researches, only in rare cases of Diabetes, the patients can live more than 20 years after Kidney Transplant.

Therefore, Kidney Transplant generally is not suggested to the patients with End Stage Renal Failure caused by Diabetes. They should choose treatment that can restore their impaired kidneys and lower high blood glucose at the same time. Here Immunotherapy is recommended to the patients with Diabetes. It will be able to block the further renal damage once the high blood sugar decreases.