A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor into a person whose kidneys no longer function properly.

 Common causes of end-stage kidney disease include:

• Diabetes
• Chronic, uncontrolled high blood pressure
• Chronic glomerulonephritis — an inflammation and eventual scarring of the tiny filters within your kidneys (glomeruli)
• Polycystic kidney disease

People with end-stage renal disease need to have waste removed from their bloodstream via a machine (dialysis) or a kidney transplant to stay alive.

Types

• Deceased-donor kidney transplant
• Living-donor kidney transplant
• Preemptive kidney transplant

Benefits

A kidney transplant is often the treatment of choice for kidney failure, compared with a lifetime on dialysis. A kidney transplant can treat chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease to help you feel better and live longer.

Compared with dialysis, kidney transplant is associated with:

• Better quality of life
• Lower risk of death
• Fewer dietary restrictions
• Lower treatment cost

But for certain people with kidney failure, a kidney transplant may be more risky than dialysis.

 Conditions that may prevent you from being eligible for a kidney transplant include:

• Advanced age
• Severe heart disease
• Active or recently treated cancer
• Dementia or poorly controlled mental illness
• Alcohol or drug abuse
• Any other factor that could affect the ability to safely undergo the procedure and take the medications needed after a transplant to prevent organ rejection

Dr Rezwanur Rahman is working as a consultant nephrologist and transplant physician at Center for kidney disease & urology hospital for 7 years. He is an active member of the transplant team. He has huge experience in pre transplant patient preparation and post transplant management of all types of medical complications. He regularly perform biopsy in the transplanted kidney to detect the cause of post transplant renal dysfunction. Transplant patient commonly developed various infection. His team is highly efficient to evaluate and manage any kind of fatal infections.