Kidney+Transplant+JM

=Kidney Transplant= 45,000 people in the United States wait for a kidney transplant each year. In reality only 8,000 kidneys are donated annually.

__People eligible for transplant__
 * End Stage Renal Disease
 * End Stage Renal Disease is the name for kidney failure. Meaning that your kidneys are no longer functioning to keep you alive
 * It can not be treated by conventional medications and is not reversible, one you have it you need a transplant.
 * An estimated 350,000 people each year are diagnosed with End Stage Renal Disease each year.
 * 67,000 people die from it.
 * Kidney failure
 * Acute kidney failure
 * Kidney failure happens rapidly due to an illness
 * Very common in patients who are hospitalized for another reason
 * Chronic kidney failure
 * Kidney failure due to a long-term disease such as diabetes
 * Substance abuse such as alcohol and drugs that can permanently scar your kidneys can lead to failure



__While waiting for a donor...__ __The Procedure__ Pros Cons
 * A donor is a person who donates a kidney to a person who needs a kidney transplant. Many people each year do not get a kidney because there is a shortage of donors
 * While people wait for a transplant they have to do dialysis
 * Dialysis
 * A procedure that is a substitute used to perform all of the kidneys functions even if the kidneys are no longer working properly
 * This procedure helps the patient live even if their kidneys are not functioning properly, it is not an ideal way of living because the treatments take hours and you have to do them several times a week.
 * It is a surgical operation where the surgeon places a new kidney in you body normally leaving your other kidneys as well unless they are causing problems such as infections.
 * Risks?
 * Not a difficult or complicated surgery
 * The period of time after the surgery is when the kidney is most vulnerable because your body could reject the new organ.
 * It can save your life after kidney failure
 * A better chance of living longer when you get a transplant
 * Finding a donor can take years
 * Your body could reject the new kidney and the entire surgery would not have worked