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About Kidney Transplant || Facts || Essential Science ||

• A kidney transplant is an operation where a patient receives another person's kidney.

• The main problem comes soon after the operation. When the new kidney can be rejected by the patient's immune system. The immune system recognizes the new kidney as a foreign particle and destroy it. So, patient can be given immune suppressant drug until the kidney is accepted by the body.

• Immune suppressant drug stop the immune system from working. So that the kidney is not rejected.

• However, it leaves the patient open to catching infectious diseases. So transplant patients are kept in hospital
• Under very sterile condition for the first few weeks.

• Kidney transplant has a very success rate with over 80% of transplant surviving for more than 5 years.

• The ideal donor for kidney transplant is identical twin.


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