Renal transplant: Also called a kidney transplant. Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor’s kidney.
Patients with end-stage renal failure are candidates for transplantation. A successful transplant frees the patient from dialysis and provides the kidney’s other metabolic functions.
The survival rate a year after a transplant from a living related donor is over 95%. The survival rate a year after a transplant from a cadaver is about 90%. The principal problems in kidney transplantation involve avoiding rejection of the transplanted kidney by the recipient’s immune system.
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