Preventive transplant?

The preventive transplant It serves to save and improve the quality of life of people who require some organ, such as the kidney ; however, its practice is uncommon.

In an interview for GetQoralHealth , the doctor Mikel Prieto , director of Mayo Clinic Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program in Rochester It calls for preventive transplantation to be practiced before dialysis and hemodialysis, to prevent it from diminishing the quality of life of people.

Mikel Prieto clarifies that this technique is performed with living donors and although at the beginning the cost is higher, the life of the patient improves markedly and the success of the kidney transplant from 1 to 5 years is greater than 90%; while at 30 years, the kidney works at 50%.

What are the scopes of the live transplant? The expert of Mayo Clinic , he reveals it to you in this video:

"The preventive transplant It is still very scarce. In the United States it is less than 15%, but if doctors see that renal function is below 20% and there are resources such as the donor, etc., the key is not to wait for dialysis to pass, but to operate immediately. "


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