People with end-stage renal failure are ideal candidates for kidney transplantation .
Kidney transplantation, or kidney transplantation, is that delicate surgical procedure by which one of the two original kidneys is replaced by another healthy one, donated by a compatible individual.
In most cases, donors are recently deceased subjects ; however, there is also the possibility of taking a kidney from a consenting living subject .Usually, living donors are direct family members, but they could also be volunteers completely unrelated to the recipient.
If initially the donation of kidney from a living individual was a fairly rare fact, today we are observing a progressive change of course. In fact, living donor kidney transplants are constantly growing . Consider that, in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel, a donation of about every 3 comes from a living person.
How do experts explain this turnaround?
Certainly, the continuous progress of medical technology and surgical techniques at the disposal of operating doctors has played (and is still playing).
In fact, with the advent of laparoscopic surgery first and then laparoscopic robotic surgery, the removal of the kidney from a living donor has become a minimally invasive procedure and the risk of complications has been greatly reduced.
Thus, problems such as long healing and the presence of large post-operative scars are today widely overcome disadvantages.
All this has convinced and continues to convince more and more people to make a very altruistic gesture, like giving an organ of their body when they are still alive.From the prognostic point of view, the increase in kidney transplants from living donors is a positive aspect : for this type of intervention, in fact, the survival rate is higher, compared to that of the operations in which the kidney comes from a dead donor .
