Patients with with kidney failure , with kidney function less than 15%may be able to have a kidney transplant. In a transplant surgery, a healthy kidney from a donor is placed into your body. The new, donated kidney does the work that your two kidneys used to do. The donated kidney can come from who has recently died (deceased donor), or from a living person-a close relative. During transplant surgery, a healthy kidney from a donor is placed into your body. The new, donated kidney does the work that your two kidneys used to do. You will need to take medicines every day to make sure your immune system doesn't reject the new kidney External link. A working transplanted kidney does a better job of filtering wastes and keeping you healthy than dialysis. Kidney transplants require blood group matching for the kidney to function, however, with advances in techniques across blood group barriers kidney transplants can be done.
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