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Kidney Transplant

Introduction

Objectives

• State the process by which the patient is diagnosed and referred
• State the management goals of a patient with declining kidney function
• Explain how a patient is referred and enters the transplant system
• Describe two important aspects of evaluating a potential transplant recipient
• List three things necessary for an individual to have to be a suitable kidney donor
• Describe the care and typical events for donor and recipient during hospitalization and after transplant surgery
• State two complications that can occur after transplantation
• Describe how kidney transplants are financially covered
• List two benefits of kidney transplantation
• Describe the follow-up care during the first transplant year
• Describe the feelings and viewpoints of people involved with this transplant