Major Problems of Kidney Transplant

The major problems of kidney transplant includes rejection and survival rate of transplanted kidneys, or we can called it “life span” of post kidney transplanted patients.

REJECTION
Since kidney transplant is a kind of “exchange” between kidneys, the new planted kidney can not live well in the new environment, because patients’ body can not recognize this new organ at first, so there will be a period of rejection.

Rejection can be divided in to 4 types: hyperacute rejection, accelerated rejection, acute rejection and chronic rejection. As for hyperacute rejection, and accelerated rejection, there is no way but removes the transplanted kidney; and for acute rejection, it is the most common rejection for patients, generally it will happened during 6 days to 6 months after transplant, the major symptoms are: fever, less urine, blood pressure increase and creatinine increase. Chronic rejection means the rejection happens after 6 months of transplant, it has relationship with following factors: undesired match of leucocyte groups, acute rejection happened many times after transplant, the dose of Ciclosporin is not enough and hyperlipidemia etc..

Anyway, patients need to go to hospital for treatment as soon as possible when rejection happens, recheck regularly is important to ensure the long and safety renal function.

SURVIVAL RATE

The effect of kidney transplant can be expressed by the survival rate of kidney or patient, after kidney transplant, because of taking immunosuppressive agent, some kinds of infection and complications as well as side effect of medicines may occur. So the effects of kidney transplant and dialysis are the concerns of people. With the developing of medical science, the success rate of kidney transplant gets a great improvement. Now the survival rate of transplanted kidney for 10 years can reach to 60%, but patients who want to transplant their kidneys also need to wait for the proper kidneys. This is really a problem, generally less than one tenth patients can be lucky donated.