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Table of Contents

Overview
Introduction
Treatment
Evaluation
Surgery
• Before Surgery
• Transplant Surgery
• Post Surgery
• Discharge
• Donor's Viewpoint
• Medications
• Problems and Progress
• Evaluation of Symptoms
• Lymphocele Problems
• Return to Work
• Insurance
Followup
Summary

Author:

Anne R. Campbell, MSPH, CHES

Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Columbia, MO
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Kidney Transplant

Surgery


Transplant Surgery

Surgery for both the patient and his brother went well. One kidney was removed from the donor, Charles, and was placed in Sam's right side ( see laparoscopic surgery donor -- recipient video and conventional surgery recipient diagram.)

Surgery It took 45 minutes for the renal vein and artery to be connected to establish blood flow through Charles' kidney, now implanted in Sam's side. The kidney began working immediately. Right after surgery the creatinine level had dropped to 10.0 and the BUN dropped to 78. By the following day, the levels were 4.6 and 41. By day 3 the levels were 1.3 and 13!

Kidney

Laparoscopic kidney transplant video.

Previous: Before Surgery
Next: Post Surgery

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