For Kidney Failure patient, or ESRD (end stage renal disease) patients, in order to sustain or prolong life span, they may need to undergo kidney transplant. A successful kidney transplant improves the quality of life and reduces the mortality risk for most patients when compared with maintenance dialysis.

Generally, the therapeutic effects of transplant are shown in one year, three years, five years or ten years’ kidney or survival rate. Renal survival refers that kidney’ function get recovery. According to Organ Transplant Conference in 2008, kidney transplant of one year kidney survival rate can reach to 90 percent or above, five years’ survival rate is 90 percent, and ten year’s survival rate is more than 60 percent. Absolutely, these numbers just refers to the kidneys’ survival rate rather than people’s life expectancy. In fact, people’s life expectancy is longer than the kidney’s survival rate if compared to dialysis.

Kidney transplant has many benefits to end stage renal failure patients than dialysis. When dialysis is stopped, the side effects and complications of dialysis will disappear such as nausea, vomiting, restless, muscle twitching, low blood pressure can all be alleviated. Since kidney functions are restored with the transplanted kidney, many symptoms and complications due to kidney problems will be treated from the root.

Why kidney transplant can prolong the life expectancy for patients?

As the mentioned above, kidney transplant can help patients get rid of dialysis, eliminate various symptoms and restore the patient’s kidney functions. Once patients’ kidney function can get well recovery, the life quality will be improved.

Meanwhile, some disadvantages of kidney transplant you should know.

--huge costs

--needs long time to wait a kidney donor

--surgery risk

--rejection rection

Actually, for patients who intend to undergo kidney transplant, they can look for alternative and natural therapy to avoid kidney transplant or dialysis. At our Shijiazhuang Hetaiheng Hospital, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, Immunotherapy are widely used to treat kidney failure patients. You may as well try this treatment, you can get unthinkable therapeutic effects. Wanna more info, please send an email us to renal-disease@hotmail.com and we will try our best to help you.