ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR
The kidneys’ main role is filtering waste products from blood into urine. Waste product build-up (kidney failure) is life-threatening. The other treatment of end-stage kidney failure is dialysis.
Your age isn’t a barrier to transplantation but ongoing infection, severe heart disease, cancer that’s spread or AIDS may be.
Kidneys are either donated by living donors – you need only one kidney to survive and ideally, close relatives are more likely to share tissue type or blood group, reducing your rejection risk, or from people who have recently died, which has slightly lower chance of success. There may be a