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Why's a kidney transplant a better solution to kidney damage than the use of a dialysis machine?
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Length and quality: Life expectancy for a person after kidney transplant is about double that of a person on dialysis. Also most but not all people say their quality of life after transplant is better than it was while on dialysis.
Answered 1/20/2017
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Kidney = Kidney: The kidney is a complex organ that excretes poisons from your body, adjusts your blood pressure, makes hormones, and adjusts your fluid levels, continuously. Use of a dialysis machine 3 times per week does not adequately replace all of these functions. Plus, a living kidney internally regulates how much of each of those functions to do. With dialysis, we have to measure and make a best guess.
Answered 4/4/2013
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