Kidney Transplant Operations

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During the past decades, kidney transplants have spread amongst many countries and finally all over the world. That was mainly due to the doctors’ opinions toward this effective kind of operation. In the beginning, doctors used to think that there were no other solutions to curing end-stage kidney disease (ESRD) 1, kidney failure and several other abnormalities related to this important organ other than dialysis. In addition, professors and doctors were not convinced about the outcomes of kidney transplants, thus they were applying this procedure as the last alternative way of treatment.

Briefly, kidney is the organ functioning as a filter in the body, which has multiple vital functions including the process of exertion of waste products and poisonous materials that result from our daily digestion of various types of food that accumulate in the blood which the body cannot function normally when those substances are in the body. Therefore, the kidney filters the blood, assembles the unwanted products and excretes them as means of urine. In addition, the kidney does regulate the amount of salt and electrolytes inside of the body so that it maintains the blood pressure circulation level accurately. Furthermore, the kidney contributes to the synthesizing of blood cells by the secretion of certain kinds of hormones the target the bone marrow. In other words, the kidney is the responsible organ for several vital functions that in turn it keeps the homeostasis under normal levels so the body can function efficiently.

The process of continuous dialysis only treated several kidney diseases such as end-stage renal disease and kidney failure, which is uncomfortable for the patient’s lifestyle. Recently, most of the patient...

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