What are the Life Expectancy for PKD Patients Who Want to Have Kidney Transplant

2014-04-02 08:56

What are the life expectancy for PKD patients who want to have kidney transplant? This is a most concerned question for PKD patients when they are in end stage kidney failure. As we know, PKD is a genetic kidney disease with lots of cysts in kidneys, and the kidney cysts will be increased and get enlarged over time, which will cause kidney damage.

When PKD cause end stage kidney failure, the kidneys will fail to work. In this condition, patients will consider to start dialysis or have kidney transplant. Then what are the life expectancy for PKD patients to have a kidney transplant? This question can be affected by many factors.

1. Waiting for suitable kidney donor

When patients decide to have a kidney transplant, they need to wait for a suitable kidney, and the waiting may be a long time. So in this process, patients need to wait with patient. However, for some patients, they still wait until they die.

2. Money cost

Have a kidney transplant will cost lots of money, so some patients may lose a family fortune for their illness. And after the kidney transplant, patients also need to take specific medicines which are also expensive.

3. Not all the kidney transplant is successful

If PKD patients have a kidney transplant, they also suffer from a high risk of rejection reaction. Here is a serious case, a patient has a kidney transplant, but few days after, he has serious rejections and a massive haemorrhage, then the doctor had to bring the new kidney out from his body.

4. The new kidney will substitute the two damaged kidneys

When people have a successful kidney transplant, the damaged kidneys will fail to work completely. And the new kidney has to do lots of work, which can also cause kidney damage after a long time.

From above, we can know there are many factors affect the life expectancy for PKD patients with a kidney transplant. Although there are many successful cases for kidney transplant, but patients also need to consider these possible factors.

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