Pioneering Kidney Transplants
In 1984, Apollo was the first private hospital in India to successfully complete a Kidney Transplant, marking a milestone. Since then, Apollo has become a global leader, performing the highest number of successful transplants worldwide.
Our team of doctors, armed with advanced technology, specializes in innovative, minimally invasive procedures, especially for kidney transplants. These modern techniques not only ensure superior outcomes but also significantly reduce recovery times and hospital stays for our patients.
40+
years of pioneering Kidney Transplants
1400+
Kidney Transplants performed annually
19000+
total Kidney Transplants completed
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When should you opt for a Kidney Transplant?
Kidney transplants, also known as renal transplants, are needed when kidneys can't remove waste, causing buildup and high blood pressure, leading to kidney failure. Complete failure causes uremia, with symptoms like swelling, fatigue, weakness, and illness.
Recognizing these symptoms is crucial for timely care if you have kidney disease:
- Weakness, fatigue, or sleep troubles
- High blood pressure
- Nausea or vomiting
- Headaches and increased thirst
- Reduced appetite or eating less
- Cramps, swelling, or itchy skin
- Kidney disease can also lead to hypertension or high blood pressure.
Why choose Kidney Transplant over Dialysis?
> Freedom from Dialysis Routine: A kidney transplant eliminates the need for thrice-weekly dialysis sessions, offering a break from this demanding routine.
> Quicker Recovery, Reduced Pain: After a kidney transplant, patients generally experience a faster recovery period with less discomfort compared to regular dialysis treatments.
> Mitigated Mortality Risks: Opting for a kidney transplant contributes to a reduced risk of mortality, leading to an overall improvement in patient prognosis and life expectancy.
> Enhanced Quality of Life: A kidney transplant enables individuals to lead a life with fewer dietary restrictions, promoting an overall improvement in well-being and quality of life.
Why choose Kidney Transplant over Dialysis?
> Freedom from Dialysis Routine: A kidney transplant eliminates the need for thrice-weekly dialysis sessions, offering a break from this demanding routine.
> Quicker Recovery, Reduced Pain: After a kidney transplant, patients generally experience a faster recovery period with less discomfort compared to regular dialysis treatments.
> Mitigated Mortality Risks: Opting for a kidney transplant contributes to a reduced risk of mortality, leading to an overall improvement in patient prognosis and life expectancy.
> Enhanced Quality of Life: A kidney transplant enables individuals to lead a life with fewer dietary restrictions, promoting an overall improvement in well-being and quality of life.
Types of Kidney Transplants
At Apollo Institutes of Transplant, we provide a complete program with different types of kidney transplants to meet your specific medical needs. Each transplant option comes with its own benefits and is tailored to suit individual situations.
> Cadaver or Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplant: This procedure involves receiving a kidney from someone who has recently passed away, with their family's consent or as indicated on a donor card. The donated kidney is preserved and then transplanted into a person with kidney failure. It can be kept viable by cooling or using specialized machines until it's implanted. Often, the donor and recipient are close geographically to minimize the time the kidney is outside the body.
> Living Donor Kidney Transplant: In this procedure, a kidney is removed from a living donor and placed into the recipient's body to replace the damaged kidney. The human body can function normally with just one kidney, making this type of transplant feasible.
> Pre-emptive Kidney Transplant: This procedure involves receiving a transplant before starting dialysis. It's seen as an excellent treatment for acute kidney injury or advanced chronic kidney disease.
> ABO incompatible Kidney Transplant: When the donor kidney's blood type O antibodies don't match well with the recipient's, special methods are used to make the recipient's body less sensitive to these differences, allowing the transplant to proceed.
> SWAP Kidney Transplant: Also known as a kidney swap, this occurs when a living kidney donor is incompatible with their intended recipient. In such cases, a swap happens between donor-recipient pairs, enabling two incompatible recipients to receive kidneys that are a better match.
Types of Kidney Transplants
At Apollo Institutes of Transplant, we provide a complete program with different types of kidney transplants to meet your specific medical needs. Each transplant option comes with its own benefits and is tailored to suit individual situations.
> Cadaver or Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplant: This procedure involves receiving a kidney from someone who has recently passed away, with their family's consent or as indicated on a donor card. The donated kidney is preserved and then transplanted into a person with kidney failure. It can be kept viable by cooling or using specialized machines until it's implanted. Often, the donor and recipient are close geographically to minimize the time the kidney is outside the body.
> Living Donor Kidney Transplant: In this procedure, a kidney is removed from a living donor and placed into the recipient's body to replace the damaged kidney. The human body can function normally with just one kidney, making this type of transplant feasible.
> Pre-emptive Kidney Transplant: This procedure involves receiving a transplant before starting dialysis. It's seen as an excellent treatment for acute kidney injury or advanced chronic kidney disease.
> ABO incompatible Kidney Transplant: When the donor kidney's blood type O antibodies don't match well with the recipient's, special methods are used to make the recipient's body less sensitive to these differences, allowing the transplant to proceed.
> SWAP Kidney Transplant: Also known as a kidney swap, this occurs when a living kidney donor is incompatible with their intended recipient. In such cases, a swap happens between donor-recipient pairs, enabling two incompatible recipients to receive kidneys that are a better match.
Pediatric Kidney Transplant
Kidney failure can have a negative impact on a child's growth, bone strength, and nerves. This can affect a child's brain development and function, causing learning disabilities. Kidney transplant is considered the best treatment option for adults, as well as children, who have kidney failure. Having a kidney transplant means your child would not have to do dialysis, which takes up lots of time and could disrupt your child's social and school life.
> A child older than two years of age can get an adult kidney, if the kidney fits in their body.
> The new kidney is usually placed in the child's lower right side of the stomach area.
> In smaller children, the new kidney is placed in the middle of the child's stomach area.
> The child's own kidneys are usually not removed.
>The surgeon will use the donor's ureter (the tube that the urine passes through) and attach it to the child's bladder.
State-of-the-Art Facilities for Comprehensive Care
Operation Theaters
Our state-of-the-art operating rooms feature laminar flow technology, Laparoscopy, and Robotic Equipment, ensuring optimal sterility and precision during surgeries.
Blood Bank Services
Operating 24/7, our Blood Bank provides immediate access to blood and related products, prioritizing patient safety and swift care.
Comprehensive Post-care
Advanced Intensive Care and Transplant Units guarantee meticulous post-operative care, catering to both donors and recipients during critical recovery periods.
Specialist Team
We boast the best specialists across major medical fields, providing comprehensive and expert care to patients.
Advanced Diagnostics
Our Diagnostic and Radiology Facilities utilize the latest technologies, including 320 Slice CT scanners, 3 Tesla MRI machines, and state-of-the-art Ultrasound, ensuring accurate and detailed diagnostics.
Dedicated Laboratory
Equipped with high-end technology, our laboratories conduct a wide array of tests and investigations, ensuring precise and reliable results for patient care.
State-of-the-Art Facilities for Comprehensive Care
Operation Theaters
Our state-of-the-art operating rooms feature laminar flow technology, Laparoscopy, and Robotic Equipment, ensuring optimal sterility and precision during surgeries.
Blood Bank Services
Operating 24/7, our Blood Bank provides immediate access to blood and related products, prioritizing patient safety and swift care.
Comprehensive Post-care
Advanced Intensive Care and Transplant Units guarantee meticulous post-operative care, catering to both donors and recipients during critical recovery periods.
Specialist Team
We boast the best specialists across major medical fields, providing comprehensive and expert care to patients.
Advanced Diagnostics
Our Diagnostic and Radiology Facilities utilize the latest technologies, including 320 Slice CT scanners, 3 Tesla MRI machines, and state-of-the-art Ultrasound, ensuring accurate and detailed diagnostics.
Dedicated Laboratory
Equipped with high-end technology, our laboratories conduct a wide array of tests and investigations, ensuring precise and reliable results for patient care.
Your Kidney Transplant Journey
A. Selecting a Transplant Centre
Your doctor will guide you to a transplant center known for its extensive program, high number of successful transplants, and advanced techniques. It's crucial to select a center with a proven track record in kidney transplants, ensuring comprehensive care and better outcomes.
Why Choose Apollo?
Recognized as the world's busiest transplant program, Apollo conducts over 1400+ kidney transplants annually
with an outstanding 90% success rate.
> We're leaders in kidney transplants, specializing in innovative techniques like living-donor, deceased-donor, and preemptive transplants.
> Our diverse team of specialists ensures comprehensive care, including urologists, nephrologists, surgeons, anesthesiologists, coordinators, social workers, and psychiatrists.
> With a track record of over 19,000+ successful kidney transplants, we lead the nation in this field.
> Our network of 24 centers nationwide offers convenient access to our top-tier transplant services.
B. Donor Evaluation Process
A kidney donor, whether deceased or living, related or unrelated, undergoes assessments by your transplant team to determine suitability. Tests include blood typing, prioritizing matching or compatible blood types, tissue typing (HLA), and a crossmatch test in the lab to ensure no adverse reactions between antibodies and antigens. The donor’s kidney is usually removed by a Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy which is a minimally invasive procedure that uses a laparoscope to remove a kidney for donation.
Laparoscopic kidney removal is considered minimally invasive because it only requires three or four small non-muscle-cutting incisions rather than one large muscle-cutting incision in the abdomen.
If a suitable living donor isn't found, you can join the waitlist for a deceased-donor kidney. The government manages a national waiting list for kidney transplants. When a donor is available, their details go on the list. A computer matches the kidney with someone on the list based on blood type, compatibility, and how long they've been waiting.
B. Donor Evaluation Process
A kidney donor, whether deceased or living, related or unrelated, undergoes assessments by your
transplant team to determine suitability. Tests include blood typing, prioritizing matching or
compatible blood types, tissue typing (HLA), and a crossmatch test in the lab to ensure no
adverse reactions between antibodies and antigens. The donor’s kidney is usually removed by a Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy which is a minimally invasive procedure that uses a laparoscope to remove a kidney for donation. Laparoscopic kidney removal is considered minimally invasive because it only requires three or four small non-muscle-cutting incisions rather than one large muscle-cutting incision in the abdomen.
If a suitable living donor isn't found, you can join the waitlist for a deceased-donor kidney. The government manages a national waiting list for kidney transplants. When a donor is available, their details go on the list. A computer matches the kidney with someone on the list based on blood type,
compatibility, and how long they've been waiting.
C. Eligibility
Determining eligibility involves assessing overall health, the ability to handle post-transplant medications, and any conditions that might impact transplant success. The evaluation process includes physical exams, imaging studies, blood tests, and psychological assessments.
Certain conditions could impact your eligibility for a kidney transplant, including recent cancer (excluding most skin cancers), uncorrectable heart disease, untreatable psychiatric illness, and active substance abuse (alcohol or drugs). Your doctor will evaluate these factors and discuss your eligibility during the assessment process.
D. During the Procedure
During the kidney transplant surgery, the patient is under general anesthesia. A lower abdominal incision allows the placement of the new kidney. It's connected to blood vessels in the abdomen for proper blood flow and to the bladder via the ureter for urine passage. This process ensures the successful integration of the new kidney into the recipient's body.
E. Post-Procedure Care
Hospital Stay
Typically, you'll remain in the hospital's recovery area
for about a week post-transplant. Continuously monitored by medical staff aims to detect any
potential complications. The new kidney's function, specifically its ability to produce urine,
is closely observed.
Return to Normal Activities
Most patients resume work and regular routines within approximately 5 to 6 weeks following the transplant. However, it's advisable to refrain from heavy lifting or strenuous exercises for about six weeks until the surgical wound has completely healed.
Follow-up Checkups
After discharge, regular follow-up appointments are essential to assess the new kidney's performance and mitigate rejection risks. Frequent blood tests and medication adjustments might be necessary during this period.
Lifelong Medication
Long-term medication is imperative post-transplant. Immunosuppressants, vital for preventing rejection of the new kidney, will be prescribed. Additional medications aimed at reducing infection and other complications post-transplant will also be part of your ongoing medication.
E. Post-Procedure Care
Hospital Stay
Typically, you'll remain in the hospital's recovery area
for about a week post-transplant. Continuously monitored by medical staff aims to detect any
potential complications. The new kidney's function, specifically its ability to produce urine,
is closely observed.
Return to Normal Activities
Most patients resume work and regular routines within approximately 5 to 6 weeks following the transplant. However, it's advisable to refrain from heavy lifting or strenuous exercises for about six weeks until the surgical wound has completely healed.
Follow-up Checkups
After discharge, regular follow-up appointments are essential to assess the new kidney's performance and mitigate rejection risks. Frequent blood tests and medication adjustments might be necessary during this period.
Lifelong Medication
Long-term medication is imperative post-transplant. Immunosuppressants, vital for preventing rejection of the new kidney, will be prescribed. Additional medications aimed at reducing infection and other complications post-transplant will also be part of your ongoing medication.
F. Complications following a kidney transplant
While kidney transplants are a life-saving procedure, it's important to understand that, like any surgery, they do carry some risks. However, thanks to advancements in medicine, the rates of serious complications have fallen sharply in recent decades. Here are some of the potential risks involved in kidney transplants.
Infection: Between 10% and 20% of transplant recipients experience an infection within the first week after surgery. This is due to the immunosuppressant medicines you need to take after your transplant, which lower your immune system's ability to fight infections. Thankfully, these infections can be managed with antibiotics or other medications.
Blood Clots: Blood clots can form in the arteries connected to the new kidney, affecting around 1 in 50 transplants. While medication can sometimes dissolve these clots, in some cases, removing the transplanted kidney might be necessary if the blood supply is blocked.
Blood Clots: Blood clots can form in the arteries connected to the new kidney, affecting around 1 in 50 transplants. While medication can sometimes dissolve these clots, in some cases, removing the transplanted kidney might be necessary if the blood supply is blocked.
Narrowing of an Artery (Arterial Stenosis): Over time, the artery supplying blood to the transplanted kidney can narrow, potentially causing high blood pressure. This narrowing can often be treated with a procedure to widen the artery, and sometimes, a stent may be placed to keep it open.
Blocked Ureter: The tube carrying urine from the kidney to the bladder (ureter) can become blocked. This blockage can happen soon after surgery due to blood clots or develop later due to scar tissue. A catheter can often resolve the blockage, though surgery might sometimes be required.
Urine Leakage: A small leak from where the ureter joins the bladder can occur within the first month after surgery (around 3-4% of recipients). This fluid buildup can be treated with additional surgery.
Acute Rejection: Even with immunosuppressant medications, the recipient's body may recognize the transplanted kidney as foreign and attack it. This is called acute rejection and affects up to 1 in 3 people in the first year after a transplant. Acute rejection often doesn't cause any noticeable symptoms and is usually detected through routine blood tests. If rejection does occur, it can often be successfully treated with a short course of stronger immunosuppressant medications.
F. Complications following a kidney transplant
While kidney transplants are a life-saving procedure, it's important to understand that, like any surgery, they do carry some risks. However, thanks to advancements in medicine, the rates of serious complications have fallen sharply in recent decades. Here are some of the potential risks involved in kidney transplants.
G. Recovery
During your recovery from a kidney transplant, lifelong immune-suppressing medications are essential to prevent rejection, possibly requiring additional drugs to manage infection risks. Dietary changes, like including fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins, play a crucial role.
Coping strategies and support, such as support groups and social media engagement, are provided by the transplant team. Gradually increasing physical activity, beginning with walking and aiming for 30 minutes of moderate exercise five days a week, is advised under the guidance of the transplant team for a healthy post-transplant lifestyle.
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