A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure to place a kidney from a living or deceased donor into a person whose kidneys are no longer working properly.
The kidneys remove excess fluid and waste products from the blood. Kidney failure, or end-stage kidney disease, involves the kidneys losing their filtering ability and dangerous levels of fluid and waste products accumulating in your body. A kidney transplant is often the best treatment for kidney failure.
Why a kidney transplant?
Causes of kidney failure disease include:
diabetic
Chronic uncontrolled high blood pressure
Chronic glomerulonephritis
polycystic kidney disease
In end-stage kidney disease, the kidneys cannot filter the blood adequately, and the patient becomes a candidate for a kidney transplant.
Rules for kidney transplantation in Turkey
There are two rules for getting a kidney transplant in Turkey:
The donor must be close to at least fourth degree
If your wife/husband is to be a donor, the marriage must last for 5 years
hospital period
Kidney transplantation in Turkish hospitals includes 1 to 10 days hospital stay. It is a major surgery that performs a kidney transplant. This is done under general anesthesia and will usually take about three hours. Patients must take several tablets, including immunosuppressive tablets, and must present to the patient’s department abroad for regular checkups after discharge.
