A renal transplant, or kidney transplant, is a surgical procedure in which a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor is placed into a person with kidney failure to take over the filtering of waste and excess fluid from the blood. Transplantation is often the preferred treatment for end-stage kidney disease be…
A renal transplant, or kidney transplant, is a surgical procedure in which a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor is placed into a person with kidney failure to take over the filtering of waste and excess fluid from the blood. Transplantation is often the preferred treatment for end-stage kidney disease because it can restore kidney function and quality of life more fully than long-term dialysis. The topic encompasses donor selection and ethics, the surgical procedure and its hemodynamics, immunological matching, the prevention and management of rejection, lifelong immunosuppression, and the monitoring of graft function and post-transplant complications. Because recipients require sustained immune suppression, they face particular risks including infection, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders, and other complications that demand careful surveillance. The journal publishes research across these dimensions, including studies of intra-operative hemodynamics and delayed graft function in living kidney transplantation, the diagnostic value of Doppler ultrasonography for evaluating post-transplant complications and kidney function, genetic profiling to personalize immunosuppressive therapy in acute rejection, the detection of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, and ethical questions surrounding organ donation and donor health protection. This work reflects the surgical, immunological, diagnostic, and ethical facets of kidney transplantation within the broader field of Organ Transplantation.
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