my husband is diabetic and is very terrified about his kidney failure and the possiblity of having a transplant.
2007-08-22 17:27:34 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
It is very very very safe, one of the more safer prcedures out there that doctors do. As long as you take your anti-rejection meds (if any) and keep it in good health. You should be fine. Almost no complications rise during the surgery and the few that do rise after the surgery is due to the fact that the receiver doesn't take good care of it.
~ M.R.D.
2007-08-22 17:32:43 · answer #1 · answered by CGR941 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-18 03:07:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-17 10:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by Priscila 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister was one of the first transplant patients at UCLA/St.John's in Santa Monica. My mother was her donor. My sister had that kidney for 7 years. It doesn't sound like a long time, but in that 7 years, the techniques were improved and new anti-rejection drugs were developed. She had a second transplant with a cadaver kidney and lived another 26 years before dying of an unrelated illness. During her lifetime, she was able to live just like everyone else. She had a career, a home, a family-----without transplant surgery, she wouldn't have had any of it.
2007-08-22 18:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are risks with every surgery. But, as a person that has had a kidney transplant, it's my opinion that getting the transplant was better than doing dialysis. If he isn't in contact with a nephrologist (kidney doctor) already, he could speak to one and get more information about the process.
2007-08-22 17:39:54 · answer #5 · answered by jenn_in_spokane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any transplant can be pretty trecherous......but there are countless people who have recieved transplants who do wonderfully.......in about 6 years working at a hospital on a medical floor i.ve seen prolly bout 3 or 4 come in due to problems related to problems w/the kidney transplant.. (all healed up just fine and went home).......but i would think that its better than getting like 6 hours of dialysis 3 times a week
2007-08-23 07:35:46 · answer #6 · answered by girl_on_the_couch_inak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a diabetic and went into renal failure (kidney) There is good and bad about the transplant surgery. He will diffently live longer and heathier with the transplant. My suggestion is like me have the pancres along with the kidney it will be heathier on the new kidney As far as the surgery goes its like 90% sucess on the kidney and just under for the pancreas
I am glad i decided to go with it.
2007-08-26 16:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A kidney transplant is the number one choice most renal failure patients choose as opposed to dialysis. I have seen many diabetic patients do very well with a kidney transplant. Diabetic patients do have poor wound healing, but its the extremities that you have to watch for on a diabetic patient because the blood doesn't circulate to the extremities very well.
2007-08-22 17:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-01-20 23:12:07 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any operation is dangerous.
Kidney transplants have a high rate of success. The greatest negative is the possibility of organ rejection. But as surgical procedures go, it is not especially dangerous.
2007-08-22 17:32:58 · answer #10 · answered by Uncle John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋