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What is Kidney Transplant?
A kidney transplant is a surgical procedure to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor into a person whose kidneys no longer function properly. The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs located on each side of the spine just below the rib cage. Each is about the size of a fist. Their main function is to filter and remove waste, minerals and fluid from the blood by producing urine.
When your kidneys lose this filtering ability, harmful levels of fluid and waste accumulate in your body, which can raise your blood pressure and result in kidney failure (end-stage kidney disease). End-stage renal disease occurs when the kidneys have lost about 90% of their ability to function normally.
Causes of end-stage kidney disease include:
- ✓Diabetes
- ✓Chronic, uncontrolled high blood pressure
- ✓Chronic glomerulonephritis — an inflammation and eventual scarring of the tiny filters within your kidneys (glomeruli)
- ✓Polycystic kidney disease
People with end-stage renal disease need to have waste removed from their bloodstream via a machine (dialysis) or a kidney transplant to stay alive.
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Why it is done?
A kidney transplant can treat chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease to help you feel better and live longer.
Compared with dialysis, kidney transplant is associated with:
- ✓Better quality of life
- ✓Lower risk of death
- ✓Fewer dietary restrictions
- ✓Lower treatment cost
Some people may also benefit from receiving a kidney transplant before needing to go on dialysis, a procedure known as preemptive kidney transplant.
But for certain people with kidney failure, a kidney transplant may be more risky than dialysis. Conditions that may prevent you from being eligible for a kidney transplant include:
- ✓Advanced age
- ✓Severe heart disease
- ✓Active or recently treated cancer
- ✓Dementia or poorly controlled mental illness
- ✓Alcohol or drug abuse
- ✓Any other factor that could affect the ability to safely undergo the procedure and take the medications needed after a transplant to prevent organ rejection
- ✓Blood clots and bleeding
- ✓Leaking from or blockage of the tube (ureter) that links the kidney to the bladder
- ✓Infection
- ✓Failure or rejection of the donated kidney
- ✓An infection or cancer that can be transmitted with the donated kidney
- ✓Death, heart attack and stroke
💉 Complications of the procedure
🔔 Anti-rejection medication side effects
After a kidney transplant, you'll take medications to help prevent your body from rejecting the donor kidney. These medications can cause a variety of side effects, including:
- ✓Bone thinning (osteoporosis) and bone damage (osteonecrosis)
- ✓Diabetes
- ✓Excessive hair growth or hair loss
- ✓High blood pressure
- ✓High cholesterol
- ✓Increased risk of cancer, particularly skin cancer and lymphoma
- ✓Infection
- ✓Puffiness (edema)
- ✓Weight gain
- ✓Acne
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Before the procedure
● Steps for undergoing Kidney Transplant
Step-1
Review of reports and case analysis by transplant team on the basis of available medical reports.
Step-2
Recipient (patient) and the donor undergo pre transplant work-up.
Step -3
Donor compatibility assessed by the transplant team.
Step -4
Patient submits all the necessary documents to the transplant committee for the approval of the transplant.
Step- 5
Case forwarded to the transplant committee for the approval.
Step- 6
Committee approves (This may take 2—4 weeks for approval after submission of all the necessary documents).
Step - 7
Patient undergoes transplant.
Before that need to find a match
A kidney donor can be living or deceased, related or unrelated to you. Your transplant team will consider several factors when evaluating whether a donor kidney will be a good match for you.
Tests to determine whether a donated kidney may be suitable for you include:
- ✓Blood typing. It's preferable to get a kidney from a donor whose blood type matches or is compatible with your own. Blood-type incompatible transplants are also possible but require additional medical treatment before and after transplant to reduce the risk of organ rejection. These are known as ABO incompatible kidney transplants.Test Includes CBC with ESR,RFT extended,LFT,Lipid profile,PSA( if applicable),PT/APTT,FBS/PP,HbA1c, HbSAg, HIV, HCV, CMV IgG and IgM, TSH,T3,T4 and HLA Typing for organ transplant.
- ✓Urine tests: Urine r/m,Urine c/s, and 24 hrs urine for creatinine/protein
- ✓Radiology Tests: ECG, 2D Echo/Stress Echo(>40years),Chest X-ray PA view,USG Whole abdomen/Pelvis,DTPA Renal scan and CT-Renal angiogram
- ✓Clearance for kidney transplant: Gynecology clearance (if applicable),Psychiatry clearance ,Cardiology clearance,PAC Clearance and Blood Donation-2
- ✓Tissue typing. If your blood type is compatible, the next step is a tissue typing test called human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing. This test compares genetic markers that increase the likelihood the transplanted kidney will last a long time. A good match means it's less likely that your body will reject the organ.
- ✓Crossmatch. The third and final matching test involves mixing a small sample of your blood with the donor's blood in the lab. The test determines whether antibodies in your blood will react against specific antigens in the donor's blood. A negative crossmatch means they are compatible and your body isn't as likely to reject the donor kidney. Positive crossmatch kidney transplants also are possible but require additional medical treatment before and after the transplant to reduce the risk of your antibodies reacting to the donor organ.
Additional factors your transplant team may consider in finding the most appropriate donor kidney for you include matching age, kidney size and infection exposure.
Living Kidney Dontion
Family members are often the most likely to be compatible living kidney donors. But successful living-donor transplants are also common with kidneys donated from unrelated people, such as friends, co-workers or religious congregation members.
Paired donation is another type of living kidney donation if you have a willing kidney donor whose organ is not compatible with you or does not match well for other reasons. Rather than donating a kidney directly to you, your donor may give a kidney to someone who may be a better match. Then you receive a compatible kidney from that recipient's donor.
If a compatible living donor isn't available, your name will be placed on a waiting list for a deceased-donor kidney. Because there are fewer available kidneys than there are people waiting for a transplant, the waiting list continues to grow. The waiting time for a deceased-donor kidney is usually a few years.
Staying Healthy
Being healthy and as active as you're able can make it more likely you'll be ready for the transplant surgery when the time comes. It may also help speed your recovery from surgery. Work to:
- ✓Take your medications as prescribed.
- ✓Follow your diet and exercise guidelines.
- ✓Don't smoke. If you need help quitting, talk to your doctor.
- ✓Stay involved in healthy activities, including relaxing and spending time with family and friends.
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During the Procedure
Kidney transplants are performed with general anesthesia, so you're not awake during the procedure. The surgical team monitors your heart rate, blood pressure and blood oxygen level throughout the procedure.
During the surgery:
- ✓The surgeon makes an incision in the lower part of one side of your abdomen and places the new kidney into your body. Unless your own kidneys are causing complications such as high blood pressure, kidney stones, pain or infection, they are left in place.
- ✓The blood vessels of the new kidney are attached to blood vessels in the lower part of your abdomen, just above one of your legs.
- ✓The new kidney's ureter — the tube that links the kidney to the bladder — is connected to your bladder.
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After the procedure
After your kidney transplant, you can expect to:
- ✓Spend several days to a week in the hospital. Doctors and nurses monitor your condition in the hospital's transplant recovery area to watch for signs of complications. Your new kidney will make urine like your own kidneys did when they were healthy. Often this starts immediately. In other cases it may take several days, and you may need temporary dialysis until your new kidneys begin to function properly. Expect soreness or pain around the incision site while you're healing. Most kidney transplant recipients can return to work and other normal activities within eight weeks after transplant. No lifting objects weighing more than 10 pounds or exercise other than walking until the wound has healed (usually about six weeks after surgery).
- ✓Have frequent checkups as you continue recovering. After you leave the hospital, close monitoring is necessary for a few weeks to check how well your new kidney is working and to make sure your body is not rejecting it. You may need blood tests several times a week and have your medications adjusted in the weeks following your transplant. During this time, if you live in another town, you may need to make arrangements to stay near the transplant center.
- ✓Take medications the rest of your life. You'll take a number of medications after your kidney transplant. Drugs called immunosuppressants (anti-rejection medications) help keep your immune system from attacking and rejecting your new kidney. Additional drugs help reduce the risk of other complications, such as infection, after your transplant.
Travel – We provide visa assistance to the patient and attendant, they have to apply for the medical visa at the Indian Embassy in their country. If you face any problem with visa, we can assist you for the urgent visa, for which you will have to send us the passport details.
- ✓Once you get the visa, please book the tickets and send us the flight schedule.
On Arrival - Patient/family will be received at the airport by our Hospital Representative.
Payment Terms
- ✓Payment can be done through credit card or cash on arrival, at least 90% of the total estimated amount.
- ✓Consultation $12 - $30.
- ✓The payment can be done through Wire Transfer, we have enclosed our bank account details in the email.
- ✓There is no waiting time and investigations will be started on the day of arrival. Apart from the medical and nursing team, one Case Manager will be taking caring of all the needs of patient and Post discharge we assist with online (video) consultation with the Doctor.
- ✓The patient attendant can stay in the patient room except during ICU.
General Assistance – We assist you with reasonable charged accommodation near to the hospital.
● Please note:
- 1The given amount does not include charges guest house/hotel near to the hospital and cost of this will be extra.
- 2The cost mentioned is on approximation. The exact costs will depend on the patient’s general condition, stay in hospital & consumption of drugs.
- 3The visa extension/visa registration charges will have to be borne by the patient / attendant for their stay in India (as per the statuary requirements in INDIA).
- 4Please carry 10 passport photographs which would be required for visa formalities, FRRO, buying a local sim card for each person.
- 5Please buy a local Sim/Mobile card from the Airport. We assist you with same at Hospital.
- 6Travel expenses for visa formalities are not included in the above estimate and is payable by the patient.
- 7Please forward the patients complete travel details at least two working days in advance so that we can make all the necessary arrangements to pick them up from the from airport or railway station.
- 8On arrival, the patient and attendants would need to register with the Police Commissioners Office within 14 days of arrival.
- 9We make arrangements for Hospital Guest House/Hotel facilities at locations convenient to the hospital.
- 10Patient should carry the photocopy of their passport at the time of treatment .
- 11PS– This is just INDICATIVE cost and patient has to bring this letter at the time of admission. The true treatment plan and cost will be given only after the evaluation here.
- 12Please bring this paper for reference while coming here.
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Complimentary Services
- ✓Pick up and Drop to the Airport
- ✓Meals for one companion during hospital stay
- ✓During the stay in the ICU, stay of the attendant would be made in the lounge.
- ✓Payments can be done by Cash/Credit Card/Wire Transfers
- ✓For post discharge stay we shall assist you to book a hotel/guest house as per your budget preference.
💉 How Satyug Healthcare Assists International Patients for Kidney Transplant Surgery in India
Satyug Healthcare is a trusted medical tourism agency that helps international patients access world-class kidney transplant surgery in India at affordable costs. Our end-to-end assistance ensures a seamless experience, from initial consultation to post-surgery care.
1. Expert Consultation & Treatment Planning
- ✓Connect with top nephrologists and transplant surgeons in India.
- ✓Detailed medical case evaluation and expert second opinions.
- ✓Assistance in selecting the best hospital for kidney transplant surgery.
2. Visa & Travel Assistance
- ✓Support in obtaining a medical visa for the patient and caregivers.
- ✓Guidance on required documents and invitation letters from hospitals.
- ✓Airport pick-up and local transportation arrangements.
3. Cost-Effective Treatment Packages
- ✓Transparent pricing with no hidden charges.
- ✓Access to affordable kidney transplant surgery at top hospitals.
- ✓Assistance in arranging organ donors as per legal guidelines.
4. Hospital Admission & Surgery Coordination
- ✓Fast-tracked hospital admission process.
- ✓Coordination with the best kidney transplant surgeons in India.
- ✓Assistance with pre-surgical tests, dialysis, and donor evaluation.
5. Post-Surgery Care & Follow-Up
- ✓Comprehensive post-operative care and medication guidance.
- ✓Assistance with follow-up consultations with transplant specialists.
- ✓Remote medical support after returning to the home country.
6. Accommodation & Comfort Services
- ✓Assistance in booking budget-friendly or premium stays near hospitals.
- ✓Language interpreters for smooth communication.
- ✓Dietary and lifestyle guidance for transplant recovery.
Satyug Healthcare ensures a hassle-free journey for international patients seeking kidney transplant surgery in India. With our expert guidance, top medical facilities, and personalized support, patients receive high-quality treatment at the best price.
Contact us today to start your kidney transplant treatment journey in India
