Question 1

how long would a kidney transplant surgery take?

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Choices: Despite the difficulties, expense and hard work, you are much better off caring for your current organs with your diabetes. If you end up with damaged kidneys despite your best diabetes care efforts, then you can rest assured you can care for your new transplanted organs, (also a lot of work, difficulties and expense). Find a diabetes support group, get involved in your care. Good luck.

Question 2

on average, how long will a kidney transplant surgery take?

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Kidney transplant: The surgical procedure is 3 to 4 hours. However, getting onto a transplant list takes time. Waiting until an organ becomes available takes time. Recovery, transplant medications, monitoring and possible complications last your lifetime. Take care of your current organs. Take care of your diabetes. Good luck.

Question 3

how long does it take to recover after hair transplant surgery?

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1 week: It is best to avoid over-exertion for the first week following hair transplantation.  This gives the newly placed hair units a chance to become accepted in the new location and gain circulation.

Question 4

how long does a standard single lung transplant surgery take?

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Lung Transplant: Having a lung transplantation involves a commitment to taking medications and management of possible infection and rejection episodes. The surgery itself may take a few hours, but then there is a recovery time, and close follow up visits with your transplant specialist.

Question 5

what is the sucess rate of aheart transplant surgery?

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Excellent 1 year: While it depends a bit on some co-morbidities of the recipients, recent analysis is that unadjusted heart graft survival at 1 year is 88%; 5 years 73%, and 10 years 52%.  Some of the reasons that grafts are lost over time relate to other diseases and infections.

Question 6

can animal organs be used for human transplant surgery?

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Good question : That has been a topic of continued research for decades.  Unfortunately animal or xenotransplants, cause very severe rejection and would not last long.  The future holds the promise of genetically engineering such animal organs so they will not trigger severe rejection.  Today pig hear valves can be altered so they can be maintained in a human.

Question 7

what is the definition or description of: transplant surgery?

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Replacing: An existing no functioning organ with another.

Question 8

what are some signs of rejection after a transplant surgery?

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Dysfunction of Organ: The major signs and symptoms relate to dysfunction of the transplanted organ.  These may be detected in abnormal blood tests such as increased creatinine (kidney), or bilirubin (liver), or blood glucose (pancreas).  If rejection is subtle there may be changes only detected on a biopsy of the transplanted organ.  Severe rejections may cause fever, chills, lethargy, or swelling and pain in the organ.

Question 9

what is the best kind of hair transplant surgery?

Accepted Answer

Follicular unit: The current "gold standard" for hair transplantation is follicular unit transplantation. In this technique, a strip of hair or individual small "punches" or "plugs" of hair are harvested from the back of the scalp. The individual hair follicles are the dissected out using a microscope. These individual hair follicles are then transplanted back into the area that is lacking hair growth.

Question 10

what are the restrictions after a kidney transplant surgery.

Accepted Answer

Stay on medication: There will be multiple restrictions. The big concept is to stay on your medications. Immunosuppression medications are key to transplant success. Your transplant team will work with you throughout the process.

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