Incompatible Kidney Transplant

What is it?

Sometimes when kidney transplant goes from a living donor, it may not have blood or tissue types that match the recipient. In these case, chances of failure are there. However, finding a compatible donor is impossible. So, with the help of special "desensitization" therapies, kidney transplant from incompatible donor are performed which to lower the risk of an immune system of the donor organ.

Success rates

As per study conduct by Byung Joo Jeon, In Gon Kim,and Youl Keun Seong on 22 ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation done in hospital which shows that difference between 5-year survival rate and 5-year graft survival rate of incompatible and compatible kidney transplant is minimal. These results provide same success rate as compatible kidney transplant and provide positive result. Care After the Procedure It take long time to have a healthy life after kidney transplant. Therefore, doctors generally recommends these things:

Proper Medication is advisable to increase immunity
Rejection must be treated to avoid complications by temporarily increasing the dose of your anti-rejection medication.
After transplant, your body requires extra nutritional value to allow for healing and to fight infection.
Need to rebuild muscle tissue and restore protein levels.