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Kidney transplantation is a life-extending procedure. [87] The typical patient will live 10 to 15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if kept on dialysis. [88] The increase in longevity is greater for younger patients, but even 75-year-old recipients (the oldest group for which there is data) gain an average four more years of life.
Renal replacement therapy includes dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), hemofiltration, and hemodiafiltration, which are various ways of filtration of blood with or without machines. Renal replacement therapy also includes kidney transplantation, which is the ultimate form of replacement in that the old kidney is replaced by a donor ...
Schematic of semipermeable membrane during hemodialysis, where blood is red, dialysing fluid is blue, and the membrane is yellow. Kidney dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, dialysis, 'dissolution'; from διά, dia, 'through', and λύσις, lysis, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer ...
The term "non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease" (NDD-CKD) is a designation used to encompass the status of those persons with an established CKD who do not yet require the life-supporting treatments for kidney failure known as kidney replacement therapy (RRT, including maintenance dialysis or kidney transplantation).
"Social adaptability index predicts kidney transplant outcome: a single-center retrospective analysis". Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 27 (3): 1239– 1245. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfr445. PMID 22036942. Goldfarb-Rumyantzev Alexander; et al. (2011). "New social adaptability index predicts overall mortality". Arch Med Sci. 7 (4): 720– 727.
Researchers have identified that a better matched kidney is correlated with better outcomes. Specifically a better matched kidney lasts longer [2] and may allow for a lower dosage of post-transplant immunosuppressive medications. [2] Also a better matched kidney transplant is correlated with a lower lifetime mortality rate. [1] [13] [40]
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.
The NKF also publishes the Kidney Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative, KDOQI, a comprehensive set of clinical practice guidelines. [citation needed] The NKF has been a vocal advocate for increasing some forms of kidney transplantation, though it opposes organ donations wherein donors are compensated for their donation. [6]