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Kidney transplant: Placing a healthy kidney from a donor into a person with kidney failure. It is done for kidney failure; done in Nepal at national transplant centres.
Placing a healthy kidney from a donor into a person with kidney failure.
Kidney failure; done in Nepal at national transplant centres.
Extensive donor and recipient tests.
Rejection, infection, side effects of medicines.
Lifelong anti-rejection medicines and follow-up.
What is kidney transplant?
Placing a healthy kidney from a donor into a person with kidney failure.
Why is kidney transplant done?
Kidney failure; done in Nepal at national transplant centres.
How do I prepare for kidney transplant?
Extensive donor and recipient tests.
How long is recovery after kidney transplant?
Lifelong anti-rejection medicines and follow-up.
What are the risks of kidney transplant?
Rejection, infection, side effects of medicines.
SI summary (own words); MedlinePlus (NLM) and NHS as references