What Are the Risks of Having Kidney Transplant

Kidney Transplant maybe a good choice for kidney failure patients to get rid of dialysis; however, it is not an ideal method, there are also some risks for people to do kidney transplant. Now let's learn what the risks are?
1. Rejection
Rejection is the most common risk that having kidney transplant, to avoid severe rejection, patients need to have tests to make sure the donor kidney matches their tissue type and blood type. Also, after kidney transplant, patients need to take lots of anti-rejection tablets. These medicines usually are very expensive and also long term taking of these medicines damage patient's immune system and worsen their immunity. Therefore, kidney failure patients bad better not choose kidney transplant as long as there is other alternative treatment.
2. Severe infection
Infection occurs easy in kidney transplant. It is one of the dominant aggravating factors for kidney problem, so all the kidney problem patients no matter they have received kidney transplant or not, they need to prevent infection actively.
3. Bleeding
Bleeding is another risk factor happening easily in kidney transplant. Generally speaking, when bleeding condition occurs, transplanted kidney need to be taken out of kidney failure patient's body immediately; otherwise, patient's life will be threatened seriously.
4. Reaction to the anesthesia used for surgery.
If not managed properly, reaction to anesthesia will become a life-threatening condition.
5. Failure of the transplanted kidney
Donor kidney fails after kidney transplant is very common among kidney failure patients who have received kidney transplant. In some cases, the transplanted kidney only work several months or even shorter for the patients. For FSGS patients as well as patients whose kidney problem is secondary disease, they are especially easy to have kidney failure again after kidney transplant, because kidney transplant does not help them to remove the root causes for kidney failure.
These are the common risks of having kidney transplant, but they not all. During surgery, some other unforeseen risks may occur and learning these risks well is helpful for kidney failure patients to make preparation before kidney transplant.