Kidney Transplant and Replacement Surgery for Kidney Failure

When it develops into kidney failure, patients’ choice may be only dialysis and kidney transplant and replacement surgery. It is really hard for people to achieve that. If you are facing this situation, you have been ready to encounter difficulties.

Difficult to find suitable donors

In most countries, people need to wait for a suitable donor for several years or even more than ten years. In the waiting time, patients with kidney failure have to rely on dialysis to sustain their lives and would lose their life due to too much deposition of toxins in the body. Kidney is the main organ to filter end products and excessive water from the body. When developing into kidney failure, their kidneys cannot function well and the toxins stay in blood vessels to poison all the tissues and organs. Thereby patients with kidney failure would have many complications.
Thereby the waiting time is fatal for them.

How long will the graft kidney live after kidney transplant and replacement surgery?
The most concerned thing for patients with kidney transplant is how long the graft kidney will live. Due to rejection, the new kidney is not easy to live in the body. So kidney transplant and replacement surgery is not the end process for them. They have to take anti-rejection drugs to block the hurt for the graft kidney from immune system. The study shows that only 1% of them can live for more than 10 years.

Serious infections after using anti-rejection

Anti-rejection can help patients’ body to accept the new graft, but it is also the main damage for their immune system. Due to weak immunity, people will get many diseases aroused by infections which may lead to the death of patients.

Is there new therapy for them to avoid all of these above?


In our hospital, Immunotherapy is used for kidney failure. It can produce many new and healthy cells for kidney tissues, so a “new” kidney can be formed in order to keep a good function. This therapy may not provide a totally new kidney for you, but it can satisfy the basic need of people. So Immunotherapy can replace the kidney transplant and replacement surgery to treat kidney failure.