Miracles of kidney transplant: Benefits, procedure, everything to know for those suffering from end-stage renal disease
1 year ago

Miracles of kidney transplant: Benefits, procedure, everything to know for those suffering from end-stage renal disease

Hindustan Times  

A kidney transplant means taking a healthy kidney from a donor and placing it into one whose kidneys are not functioning properly where donated kidneys can be sourced from either living individuals or deceased organ donors. Miracles of kidney transplant: Benefits, procedure, everything to know for those suffering from end-stage renal disease In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Puneet Bhuwania, Consultant Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai's Mira Road, explained, “Prospective kidney donors undergo thorough screening to ensure compatibility and reduce the risk of complications. In cases where the kidneys lose their ability to effectively filter waste, patients may require either dialysis, where a machine is employed to eliminate waste from the bloodstream, or a kidney transplant.” The kidney transplant procedure: Dr Puneet Bhuwania shared, “During a kidney transplant surgery, the patient is placed under general anesthesia as the surgeon makes an incision in the lower abdomen to access the kidney area. Recovery from a kidney transplant involves careful monitoring to ensure that the body accepts the new organ and that it functions properly in its new environment.” According to him, one of the main benefits of kidney transplants is the significant improvement in quality of life for individuals suffering from chronic kidney disease. Kidney transplant offers a new lease on life for many patients, providing them with hope for a brighter future free from the burdens of chronic kidney disease.” Asserting that a kidney transplant is not just a medical procedure but a life-changing process that can provide a new lease on life for those suffering from end-stage renal disease, Dr Puneet Bhuwania said, “The physical and emotional transformations that come with receiving a new kidney are profound, allowing recipients to regain their independence and freedom from the constraints of dialysis.

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World Kidney Day: Are your kidneys at risk? Signs you shouldn’t ignore
2 weeks, 3 days ago

World Kidney Day: Are your kidneys at risk? Signs you shouldn’t ignore

Firstpost  

Kidney disease is a silent epidemic and for those with end-stage renal disease, timely dialysis or a kidney transplant can mean the difference between life and death. With nearly 80% of kidney disease patients undiagnosed, experts weigh in on the importance of early detection, the dangers of hypertension and diabetes, and how lifestyle choices like alcohol consumption and obesity impact …

Severe organ shortage leaves most kidney failure patients in Delhi without transplants
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Severe organ shortage leaves most kidney failure patients in Delhi without transplants

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Every year, thousands of Indians suffer from kidney failure clinging to the hope of a transplant, but for many, that hope fades with time. With long waiting lists, a severe shortage of cadaver organ donors, and financial barriers, a large number of patients die before ever receiving a transplant. Less than 2% of kidney patients in Delhi hospitals …

Delhi man has five kidneys after rare surgery for chronic disease
1 month ago

Delhi man has five kidneys after rare surgery for chronic disease

Hindustan Times  

A 47-year-old man has undergone a rare third kidney transplant at a private hospital here, leaving him with a total of five kidneys in his body. Representative image: A man underwent a rare surgery due to chronic kidney disease and now has five kidneys A surgery was performed at Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, on Devendra Barlewar, who had been battling chronic …

DRDO scientist now lives with five kidneys after rare third transplant
1 month ago

DRDO scientist now lives with five kidneys after rare third transplant

India Today  

An Indian scientist recently underwent his third kidney transplant and now lives with five kidneys. This rare third kidney transplant makes the surgery a significant advancement in organ transplantation in the country. This extraordinary case involves Barlewar having two native non-functioning kidneys, two failed transplanted kidneys, and one newly functioning kidney. The surgery was performed by Dr. Anil Sharma, Senior …

Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, study shows
7 months ago

Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, study shows

Hindustan Times  

People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. “The last decade has become a lot more safe in the operating room for living donors,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at NYU Langone Health. With nearly 90,000 people on the U.S. list …

Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, US study shows
7 months ago

Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, US study shows

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. “The last decade has become a lot more safe in the operating room for living donors,” said Dr. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at NYU Langone Health. With nearly 90,000 people on the …

Father donates kidney to save daughter’s life
1 year ago

Father donates kidney to save daughter’s life

The Hindu  

N. Padmaja, a 32-year-old mother of two, was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, leading to kidney failure. When everything looked bleak, her father N. Viswanatha Reddy stepped forward by offering his kidney to save his daughter’s life. According to the release by Manipal Hospital, Whitefield, under Dr. Vishnuvardhan B.R., Consultant-Nephrology & Transplant Physician, and Dr. Deepak J. Kaddu, Consultant-Urology & …

How A Rare Triple Swap Of Kidneys Came To Rescue Of Three Husbands - PSRI Hospital
1 year, 1 month ago

How A Rare Triple Swap Of Kidneys Came To Rescue Of Three Husbands - PSRI Hospital

The Hindu  

New Delhi: In a unique situation in Delhi, three men who needed new kidneys couldn’t get them from their wives because they didn’t match medically. Delhi resident Sana Khatun, 26, gave her kidney to Ajay Shukla, 40, and her husband, Md Umar Yusuf, 37, received it from Lakshmi Chhaya, 40, of Bihar’s Madhubani. Ms Chhaya’s husband, Kamlesh Mandal, 54, got …

Comprehensive Guide to Kidney Transplantation And Recovery Process Post The Transplant
1 year, 5 months ago

Comprehensive Guide to Kidney Transplantation And Recovery Process Post The Transplant

News 18  

After receiving the selfless gift of a kidney, prioritizing a healthy life becomes paramount. The post-recovery period for a kidney transplant patient in India can vary based on various factors such as age, overall health, the type of transplant, and any complications. The patient’s dedication to following the medical team’s instructions, which includes regular follow-up visits, adherence to medications, and …

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
1 year, 7 months ago

How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. That’s how the body of Maurice “Mo” Miller started its journey to a sunny corner of NYU Langone Health’s intensive care unit — and became part of the quest to one day ease the nation’s transplant shortage with organs from animals. “This tragic death, this fast short death — something good …

World Organ Donation Day 2023: Public Awareness Is The Need Of The Hour For Organ Donation
1 year, 7 months ago

World Organ Donation Day 2023: Public Awareness Is The Need Of The Hour For Organ Donation

News 18  

Transplant is a proven therapy for organ failure but organ shortage is a challenge. A positive thought for coming forward as voluntary organ donor for own near and dear is doing its bit but time has arrived in India when all of us should take a step forward on this world organ donation day to pledge our organs after death. …

Less than 5% Kidney failure Patients get ‘life saving’ intervention like transplant*
1 year, 11 months ago

Less than 5% Kidney failure Patients get ‘life saving’ intervention like transplant*

Hindustan Times  

It is estimated that nearly 10 per cent of the population of India suffers from Chronic Kidney Disease **, which is emerging as a very common non-communicable disease in India. As the kidney damage progresses towards complete kidney failure, the patient will be initially kept on dialysis followed by transplantation. India has around 2 lakh patients requiring kidney transplantation each …

Alternative Treatments for Kidney Illness Beyond Dialysis
2 years, 1 month ago

Alternative Treatments for Kidney Illness Beyond Dialysis

News 18  

Every year, World Kidney Day is observed on March 9 to raise awareness about the importance of kidney health and to spread information about the prevention and treatment of kidney diseases. Dr. Vishwanath S, HOD & Consultant – Nephrology, Transplant Physician, Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road, says, “Kidney disease is a condition that impairs the kidneys’ ability to properly function. …

Kidney transplant: Things to keep in mind before surgery
2 years, 3 months ago

Kidney transplant: Things to keep in mind before surgery

India TV News  

Kidney transplant: Things to keep in mind before surgery Kidney transplant has become one of the most common transplant procedures. A kidney transplant is a surgery to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor into a person whose kidneys no longer function properly. Recently, Lalu Prasad Yadav underwent a successful kidney transplant surgery. After the surgery, you …

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter to donate kidney to him: What is a live kidney donor and what are the risks involved?
2 years, 4 months ago

Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter to donate kidney to him: What is a live kidney donor and what are the risks involved?

Firstpost  

Rohini Acharya, the younger daughter of Lalu Prasad Yadav, will be donating her kidney to her father later this month, becoming a live kidney donor. Contrary to popular perception, live donations are safe and people who opt for this method live a normal life post surgery Ailing Rashtriya Janata Dal patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, who’s been in and out of …

Keep your kidney hale and hearty
3 years ago

Keep your kidney hale and hearty

Hindustan Times  

A pair of bean-shaped organs on either side of the spine, each about the size of a fist, at the lowest level of the rib cage are our kidneys, one of the most important organs for the human body to function. Also, they remove acid that is produced by the cells of the body besides maintaining a healthy balance of …

How Two Kidney Swaps Helped Four People at This Bangalore Hospital
3 years, 5 months ago

How Two Kidney Swaps Helped Four People at This Bangalore Hospital

News 18  

Humanity over religion always strikes a chord for Indians. Two people who remained on dialysis for nearly two years finally found two kidney swap transplants in the same hospital. On September 7, Ayesha’s kidney was harvested for the transplant at the same hospital, where another such swap took place. According to Dr Kumar, a kidney transplant is the best method …

Pig kidney transplant in human patient successfully tested by US surgeons
3 years, 5 months ago

Pig kidney transplant in human patient successfully tested by US surgeons

CNN  

For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant. Test results of the transplanted kidney’s function “looked pretty normal,” said transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery, who led the study. The …

US surgeons test pig kidney transplant in human patient
3 years, 5 months ago

US surgeons test pig kidney transplant in human patient

Al Jazeera  

Surgeons successfully attach a pig’s kidney to a human body in a potentially key advance that could one day to lead to the use of animal organs for life-saving transplants. For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering an immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially key advance that could eventually …

Trump directs government to revamp care for kidney disease
5 years, 8 months ago

Trump directs government to revamp care for kidney disease

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday revamping care for kidney disease so more people whose kidneys fail can have a chance at early transplants and home dialysis, and others don’t get that sick in the first place. Today’s system favors expensive, time-consuming dialysis in large centers — what Trump called so onerous “it’s like a full-time …

Kidney patients and donors assured normal life
7 years ago

Kidney patients and donors assured normal life

Deccan Chronicle  

Nellore: Kidney donors and recipients allayed fears over health complications after the donation or transplantation during a programme to quell apprehensions on the dreaded surgery in a local hospital at Nellore where 100-odd transplants took place in the last one decade. Fakruddeen of Nellore said that he gave one of his kidneys to his 13-year-old son Abbas 5 years back …

Push to better track living kidney donors’ long-term health
7 years, 2 months ago

Push to better track living kidney donors’ long-term health

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The big unknown when someone donates a kidney: The long-term health consequences. British researchers reported Monday that living kidney donors are more likely to develop later kidney failure than non-donors — and female donors may experience a pregnancy complication, problematic high blood pressure Overall, the chances of trouble still are pretty low, according to the analysis of international …

Old kidneys may be a new answer to organ shortage
8 years, 3 months ago

Old kidneys may be a new answer to organ shortage

CNN  

Story highlights Kidneys from old donors who are age-matched with the patient are viable for transplant operations, a study finds Even kidneys from 80-year-old patients showed high success rates CNN — Transplant centers come up short more often than not when treating patients in need of a kidney, as there is a shortage of donors. “Kidneys from an old donor …

A friend in need is a friend in deed, proves Delhi boy by donating organ to friend
8 years, 9 months ago

A friend in need is a friend in deed, proves Delhi boy by donating organ to friend

India TV News  

New Delhi: One of life’s biggest hurdles is figuring out who your real friends are, but not in the case of Dhanraj. The transplant took place at Safdarjung Hospital and nephrologists, who performed the transplant, said this was truly hard to believe that a friend saved the life of his friend after the blood compatibility was established. Nobody from his …

Compensating living donors could 'help ease shortage of organs for transplant'
9 years ago

Compensating living donors could 'help ease shortage of organs for transplant'

Daily Mail  

A study found people are more inclined to become living kidney donors when offered a compensation of $50,000. However, University of Florida scientists revealed that for $50,000, the majority of people would be willing to become living kidney donors – thereby saving waiting list patients from dying preventable deaths. The study authors wrote: ‘Because too many US patients are dying …

Kidney donation safe for healthy older adults
10 years, 8 months ago

Kidney donation safe for healthy older adults

China Daily  

Older people who donate kidneys have similar longevity and cardiovascular health as those who do not donate, revealed a U.S. study published Wednesday. Over the past two decades, live kidney donation by individuals aged 55 years and older has become more common, but there have been concerns that the removal of a kidney could make older donors vulnerable to premature …

Brain-dead patient’s organs donated in Vijayawada
11 years, 2 months ago

Brain-dead patient’s organs donated in Vijayawada

The Hindu  

City-based Brindavan Colony resident Mulakala Padmavathi, 39, went into coma after she suffered a sever brain haemorrhage on January 16. Consulting Nephrologists N. Ammanna, K. Prasanth Kumar and G. Srinivasa Rao and Indian Medical Association Vijayawada chapter president Indla Ramasubba Reddy gathered to show their appreciation to the family of an organ donor. Another objective of the function was to …

Kidney transplants: skip paper work to save lives
12 years ago

Kidney transplants: skip paper work to save lives

The Hindu  

Senior nephrologists on the eve of the World Kidney Day, which falls on Thursday, have called for faster processing of permission required to take up swap transplantation of kidneys, which is expected to increase the kidney donation pool for the needy. At present, the government’s Transplantation Committee takes anywhere between four to six months, to allow patients and their families …

Weight ‘key in kidney transplant success’
14 years, 10 months ago

Weight ‘key in kidney transplant success’

The Hindu  

Weight of donors and recipients is the key to success in kidney transplants, say scientists. A new study of over 1,000 transplant patients found those receiving a small kidney in proportion to their weight were more at risk of complications, the latest edition of the ’Journal of the American Society of Nephrology’ reported. Using a calculation based on the weight …

Health: After the agony, the freedom: Kidney recipient Ted Harrison joins the debate on transplant problems
32 years, 3 months ago

Health: After the agony, the freedom: Kidney recipient Ted Harrison joins the debate on transplant problems

The Independent  

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