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Kidney Transplantation

Also called: Renal transplantation
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A kidney transplant is an operation that places a healthy kidney in your body. The transplanted kidney takes over the work of the two kidneys that failed, so you no longer need dialysis.

During a transplant, the surgeon places the new kidney in your lower abdomen and connects the artery and vein of the new kidney to your artery and vein. Often, the new kidney will start making urine as soon as your blood starts flowing through it. But sometimes it takes a few weeks to start working.

Many transplanted kidneys come from donors who have died. Some come from a living family member. The wait for a new kidney can be long.

If you have a transplant, you must take drugs for the rest of your life, to keep your body from rejecting the new kidney.

NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Start Here

  • Kidney Transplant (National Kidney Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Kidney Transplant (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
  • Kidney Transplant From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Also in Spanish

Treatments and Therapies

  • Immunosuppressants (Anti-rejection Medicines) (National Kidney Foundation)

Living With

  • Diet after kidney transplant (National Kidney Foundation)
  • Transplants for All (National Kidney Foundation)

Related Issues

  • If You Have Kidney Disease, You Need to Get a Flu Shot this Fall (National Kidney Foundation)
  • Solitary or Single-Functioning Kidney From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Also in Spanish
  • Travel Tips: A Guide for Kidney Patients (National Kidney Foundation)
  • Vaccines for Adults with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease, Kidney Failure, or Kidney Transplant (National Kidney Foundation)

Specifics

  • Kidney (Health Resources and Services Administration)
  • Kidney-Pancreas Transplant (National Kidney Foundation)

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  • Kidney transplant - series (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

Statistics and Research

  • The SRTR/OPTN Annual Data Report (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients)

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  • ClinicalTrials.gov: Kidney Transplantation From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

  • Article: 12-Month Outcomes of a Prospective Randomized Trial Investigating Effects of IVIG...
  • Article: Prolonged normothermic perfusion of the kidney prior to transplantation: a historically...
  • Article: Effect of felzartamab on the molecular phenotype of antibody-mediated rejection in...
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  • Kidneys and Urinary Tract (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish
  • Your Kidneys and How They Work From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Also in Spanish

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  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases From the National Institutes of Health
  • National Kidney Foundation
  • Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (Health Resources and Services Administration)

Children

  • How Do Health Care Professionals Treat Kidney Failure in Children? From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Also in Spanish

Women

  • Pregnancy and Kidney Disease (National Kidney Foundation)

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  • Kidney transplant (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

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Related Health Topics

  • Kidney Cysts
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The primary NIH organization for research on Kidney Transplantation is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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