Kidney Transplant Surgeon

About Kidney Transplant Surgeon

A kidney transplant surgeon is a surgeon specialized in performing the procedure of transplanting a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor into the recipient patient whose kidneys no longer function properly.

When should you consider visiting a Kidney Transplant Surgeon?

There are various reasons or conditions when your physician might ask you for a visiting a kidney transplant surgeon, the most common being:

• Your kidneys has stopped working entirely or you are put on dialysis.
• Recurring infection in the kidney that cannot be treated effectively.
• Cancer that has spread from its original location to elsewhere in the body.
• Severe heart or other health problems that make it unsafe to have surgery.
• Serious conditions other than kidney disease that would not get better after transplantation.
• Current or recurring kidney infection that cannot be treated effectively.
• Cancer that has spread from its original location to kidney.

Procedures Performed

• Deceased-donor kidney transplant
• Living-donor kidney transplant
• Pre-emptive kidney transplant