What are the Disadvantages for Kidney Transplant

At present, Kidney Transplant has become one of the relatively successful operations for patients of Renal Failure, while kidney transplant should be the last choice for the patients. On one kind, not all patients are suitable for this operation. On the other hand, there are still some disadvantages for this operation.

Successful kidney transplant can help the patients get rid of suffering of dialysis. Besides, kidney transplant can be more effective on treating renal failure. One successfully transplanted kidney can provide the function of ten times of that of dialysis. And the patients who adopt the kidney transplant have less restricts than the patients who take dialysis, which means the life quality can be better. Most patients who have taken transplant feel better and stronger than when they take dialysis.

However, at the same time, we must pay attention to the disadvantages of kidney transplant. All in all, this is a major operation. So we need to consider this from the following aspects:
1, it is a complex and long procedure to find out the matched kidney. It needs to take a series of examinations to make sure the best matching of the blood type and tectotype for the donor and the receptor. However, the patients who have got the most matched kidney may be not the best receptor. For the kidney transplant operations, there are various kinds of contraindications, such as liver disease, infectious diseases, serious heart disease and so on.

2, rejection is the most serious problem for patients. Although we can adopt the immunosuppressant to restrain or relieve the rejections, this will affect the life quality of the patients. Besides, the effects of immunosuppressant on the chronic rejection are not very good. Once it attracts, the renal function will decline gradually and then the patients may have to be faced with dialysis again. Besides, long term of taking immunosuppressant will affects the patients’ immunity. Infection is one the most common cause for the rejection and death of the patients. At the same time, patients who take the immunosuppressant for long term are more likely to suffer from cancer. And immunosuppressant may lead to toxins of liver and kidney, hyperglycemia, osteoporosis and so on.

3, for many cases, the transplanted kidneys can’t last for the whole life. Of course, there are patients who can live a better life for more than 20 years, but this is the better result. Usually, for the relatively young patients, they may have to take kidney transplant for two or even three times. And if the kidney transplant failed, the patients have to take dialysis again and wait for the next operations.

Therefore, just as we have said, kidney transplant should be the last choice for patients of renal failure. That means the patients had better not take the kidney transplant unless it was absolutely essential. if there still are the chance to improve the renal function and avoid the operations, the patients should not give up the chance.