How Long Can the Transplanted Kidney Live

Kidney transplant is always regarded as the last life-saving straw. After Renal Failure patients have been on the list, then they begin the unknown of waiting. The wait for a donor may even take years. During the period of waiting, dialysis has to be used to maintain patients’ lives.

Patient’s life after transplant

It seems that the life is not that smooth after receiving kidney transplant. Renal Failure patients have to take the anti-rejection medicines and try their best to prevent cold and any other infections. However, the long terms use of anti-rejection medicines can destroy the immune system gradually. In that case, even a small cold may cause the immune inflammatory reaction occurs, then the new kidney damage. That is the reason why some patients receiving kidney transplant find their creatinine level become higher again after a period of time.

How long can the transplanted kidney alive?

In general, after 13 years, the new kidney will be failed to work normally, which is to say that patients need to go back to dialysis treatment or receive the second kidney transplant. But nothing is absolute in the world, a minority of patients receiving kidney transplant can live for a long life as common people do.

As long as the Renal Failure patients can be treated by the treatment which is able to enhance kidney function and rebuild the innate immune system of human body, kidney transplant can be avoided, then, the patient can live longer

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