kidney transplant
Renal replacement surgery
A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure in which a healthy kidney from a donor replaces a diseased or failing kidney in a recipient.
The donor may be living or deceased: She's on the waiting list for a kidney transplant.
Unlike most organ transplants, people can donate a kidney while alive because humans can function with only one.
- waiting listRecord of hopeful applicants
- organ donationGifting body parts for transplant
- living donorConscious person giving tissue
- uremiaBlood toxicity from renal failure
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
immunosuppressants · graft rejection · proteinuria · donor compatibility · immune suppression · T-cells · nephrologist · gift of life · donor registry · recovery · organ · hospital · graft · renal · donor · laparoscopic surgery · ureter · recipient
- organ transplantsorgan donation, living donor, deceased donor, waiting list, donor registry
- transplantsorgan donation, allograft, autograft, autotransplant, xenotransplant
- Kidney Diseaserenal failure, nephrology, dialysis, GFR, nephrologist
- kidney treatmentsdialysis, hemodialysis, diuretics, low sodium diet
- medical proceduressurgery, bypass surgery, biopsy, heart surgery, brain surgery
- surgeriessurgery, appendectomy, hysterectomy, minor surgery, elective surgery
kidney transplantdialysis
Mechanical blood filtration
hemodialysis · palliative care · conservative treatment · artificial kidney · supportive care