For these with kidney failure, the watch for a brand new kidney can take years. There simply usually are not sufficient organs from deceased donors to fill the necessity. Fortunately, an individual can stay a wholesome life with only one kidney, making living-donor kidney transplants a substitute for deceased-donor transplants. This means a wholesome kidney is faraway from a donor and positioned right into a affected person whose kidneys usually are not working correctly.
Dr. Carrie Jadlowiec, a Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon, says a living-donor kidney transplant has advantages for organ recipients, together with higher survival charges. Who is eligible to turn into a donor and what are you able to anticipate? Learn extra on this Mayo Clinic Minute.
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