Waiting for a Kidney

Waiting for the kidneys in the United States, 122,365 people are waiting for organ donation; 100,218 of them waiting for kidney transplantation. Because the transplant list is so long, some patients have to wait ten years to gain kidney. These patients are painfully waiting for the kidneys they may never accept. According to an article by Barbara Mantel, the most common causes of kidney transplantation are inflammatory reactions of drugs against hypertension, diabetes, kidney stones, hereditary kidney disease, and other diseases.

In 2002, 12,644 patients were enrolled in the kidney waiting list, but only 3,043 patients were able to access organs. In the Netherlands and Germany in the Netherlands and Germany, 1,182 and 9,479 patients were enrolled in the waiting list for kidney transplantation, but only 406 and 2111 transplants were transplanted 3. Although the incidence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) is rising, the demand for kidney transplant alone is estimated to be about 80,000 people per year, but 5,000 transplants are not even done. Liberalization of the concept of brain stem death, introduction of presumption consent, daily harvest, requirements, raising age restriction of donors, relaxation of restrictions on family donation, permission for altruistic donation to others for problem solving Strategies such as

The kidneys used for transplantation come from those who agree to provide kidney (dead donor) at the time of death or to provide kidney by healthy person (living donor). A living donor is usually a patient's family. The waiting time for transplant from a living donor is shorter. (This is because there is a waiting list from the kidneys of the donor who died and there is not enough donor.) In addition, patients who donated to the donor living with the kidney were died from the dead donor kidney or fresh kidney I will live long. (The kidneys will last longer) Dialysis