“How successful are kidney transplant surgeries?”
My doctor told me that I would need a kidney transplant, so I was placed on the list last week. While I know that it won't happen right away, like who knows if I would even get one, but how successful is this surgery? Is there a chance for the transplant to fail?
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Kidney transplant is a successful and safe procedure nowadays. It can be done in 2-4 hrs with minimal blood loss and an average of 3-4 days of hospital stay. Chance of primary not function (the kidney graft will never start working) is minimal and related to known donor/recipient risk factors. Chance of delayed graft function (kidney might take up to 3 weeks to work properly) can happen in about 10-15% of the cases especially in the setting of deceased donor donation.
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