Kidney Transplantation

Kidneys are two organs in bean shape; they are located in the both sides of the backbone right below the rib cage. Each of them is as big as a fist. The main duty of the kidneys is filtering the residuum, minerals and liquid in blood and taking some harmful and residual elements out by way of urine. When our kidneys loose this ability to filter, some harmful liquids and residuum accumulate in your body. This may cause high blood pressure and end stage renal failure. The end stage renal failure occurs with kidneys’ losing 90 per cent of their normal function. Among the treatment options for this disease there are dialysis and kidney transplantation.The most common reasons for end stage renal failure are:

• Diabetes

• Chronic and uncontrollable high blood pressure

• Chronic glomerulonephritis- permanent function loss in your kidneys as a result of the inflammation of small filters on them (glomeruli)

• Polycystic kidney disease

 Kidney transplantation with living donors is a quite comfortable method for both donors and takers. Besides, quite successful results are also taken in the kidney transplants which are made from a person whose cerebral death occurred- that is, a cadaver.