The Disadvantages of Kidney Transplantation

Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ. Living-donor renal transplants are further characterized as genetically related (living-related) or non-related (living-unrelated) transplants, depending on whether a biological relationship exists between the donor and recipient.
But the Disadvantages of Kidney Transplantation.

Kidney Transplantation is surgical procedure to place a healthy kidney into renal failure patients. The transplanted kidney takes over the work of the two kidneys that failed, and some patients no longer need dialysis. Though kidney transplantation operation is very common in foreign countries, it has some irreversible disadvantages.
The disadvantages of Kidney Transplantation are as follows:
1. Risk of rejection: There is no way to 100% guarantee that your body will accept your new kidney.
2. Your immune system will decrease after kidney transplantation.
3. You will need to take medications every day and these drugs may have side-effects. Anti-rejection drugs may also cause problems that may require you to be hospitalized. Besides, you have to take anti-rejection drugs in your whole life.
4. It is very hard to find a suitable kidney for the patient's body.
5. After kidney transplantation, the patients have to take anti-rejection drugs for the whole life. So the cost of anti-rejection drugs can be high.
Since kidney transplant has so many disadvantages, we should find a better treatment to replace it.