The fastest way to get a kidney transplant

Have you ever heard of an exchange of a couple? It can also be known as a kidney exchange. The whole process is quite simple to understand and permits patients to receive a kidney transplant within a year, instead of waiting for the traditional 2 to 4 years. 

First of all, the patient needs a new kidney should have a family member or someone willing to give her body to him directly. It is called a living donor. A perfect match would be the best and will be able to go ahead with the kidney transplant. Before 2008, if there was no match, which was, no transplant. Now, there is more hope. The potential kidney donor and the patient, providing the consent of all, will be included in a national list for an exchange of the kidney. 

The objective is to match the patient and his donor with another patient and donor in the same situation. This is what an exchange of kidney is everything. The end result is the same: both patients and both have new kidney donors have given one. This process opens more doors and allows more organs transplants to take place because otherwise, nothing would have happened without a match. 

Sometimes it takes more than 2 donors to make it happen. At other times, it takes a much larger chain. The record in the United States was a chain of 23 kidneys transplants involving 46 people, which occur in a period of 2 months. I cannot imagine everything you need coordination in order to make it happen. People were a bit everywhere in the country. From California to New York together in Washington (state) and Texas among the states involved. 

The body in charge of facilitating these exchanges is the combined National Kidney Registry. They helped organized more than 270 kidneys transplants since 1998. They average wait time is only 11 months compared with 51 months for the traditional deceased donor waiting list. There may be a transplant center near you that is part of this process. A total of 54 transplant centers to participate in this program living donor. 

Exchange programs are associated with renal kept at the same level of care and outcomes from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and United Network for Organ Sharing. Donors are tested for various things, including diseases. The Transplant Centre must ensure that the donor is healthy enough to commit to kidney donation and survive the surgery. 

If you wish to become a donor kidney can you do for someone you know or anyone else. Do not worry, they will find a recipient for you!