Conditions for Kidney Treatment
Kidney transplantation may be an option in patients living with renal failure due to any of the following diseases:
Advances for Living Donor Transplantation
Asking a family member or friend to be a living donor can be very hard. Fortunately, laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive procedure causing less donor discomfort, a faster recovery resulting in a shorter hospital stay (average two days), and a smaller scar. Our Medical Center is known nationally and internationally for performing the world's first successful robotic-assisted laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (kidney removal) using the Da Vinci Robotic System. At our Transplant Center, robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery for the donor has become the standard.
Da Vinci Robotic System
Robot Hand -- Viewing Module -- Full Room
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Types of Kidney Transplantation
- Living-donor transplant
A living-donor transplant is when a living person gives an organ to a person in need. The donor can be blood-related or non-blood related. Studies have shown that living donor transplantation can be more successful than deceased donor. A living donor organ is transplanted immediately versus a deceased donor organ that has been out of the donor for a longer period of time. Having a living donor also can drastically shorten the waiting time, allowing the recipient to be transplanted sooner.
At the Transplant Center, we also have several new techniques that allow people to be living donors who may not have been qualified in the past. These methods include paired donation and transplantation of blood type incompatible donors.
- Deceased-donor transplant
A deceased donor transplant is when a person is diagnosed with brain death and the immediate family has given consent for his/her organs to be donated for transplantation. After the organs are retrieved from the donor and found to be a suitable match, it is transported to our Medical Center.
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