Nephrology & Renal Care

Kidney Transplantation

A kidney transplant is life extending surgical procedure to treat end-stage renal disease. When there is a decline in the functioning of the kidney, patients have End-stage renal disease and require either dialysis or transplantation to sustain their life. Diabetes is meant to be the common cause for Kidney Transplantation. Kidney transplantation is classified as Living Donor or decreased donor based in the source of the organ donor

Anti-rejection (Immunosuppressive agents) are necessary for the "lifetime" of the transplant to keep your body from rejecting your new kidney. Contraindications include cardiac and pulmonary insufficiency, as well as hepatic disease and some cancers. Kidney-pancreas transplant is done in patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 where the damage is due to the destruction of beta leading to renal failure. The drugs used in kidney transplant varies according to the drug therapy. Kidney transplant recipients are contraindicated to consume grapefruit, pomegranate and green tea products because they may interact with the immunosuppressants specifically tacrolimus, cyclosporine and sirolimus that are used for the drug therapy.