Kidney is one of the most vital organs in human body. It is responsible to perform an important function of the body. It filters waste from your blood and excretes that waste out of the body in the form of urine. Kidney also helps the human body to maintain the body fluid and electrolyte balance. A kidney transplant is also known as a renal transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery used to insert the healthy kidney to a patient.
Patients who are not candidates for kidney transplantation or who have to wait for a Donor can usually be treated with either hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
As the kidneys lose their ability to function, fluid, waste products, and electrolytes begin to build up in the blood. Dialysis should begin before kidney disease has advanced to the point where life-threatening complications occur. This usually takes many months or years after kidney disease is first discovered, although sometimes severe kidney failure is discovered for the first time in people who were not previously known to have kidney disease.
After your successful kidney transplant, compared to being on dialysis it will important to have a healthy well balanced diet to help protect your new kidney
Prof (Dr) D Mukherjee is an alumnus of the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune where he did his MBBS & MD (Medicine). Subsequently he went on to do his DM (Nephrology) from PGIMER Chandigarh, which is the foremost training institution for nephrology in India.