Risks of a health identical twin donating a kidney to their very weak unhealthy sibling w/renal failure?I'm sure the healthy donor would be ok, but what about the unhealthy recipient?
-The possible recipient lives off of a feeding tube and is pretty frail.
- Recipient also has Parkinson's disease & movement is very restrictive to some use of a walker.
- Recipient also had been hospitalized multiple times for urinary track infection, blood infection, and did start showing some signs of kidney damage from infection.
All this involved a couple family members some time back, and the twins are elderly, in their 60's.
Would a transplant be a feasible option? Dialysis?
I'm guessing no... since the ill person did pass away pretty quickly, I'm just wondering about the "what ifs" and would these treatments have done a lot of good?
Posted by Judy B
Did the sick one actually have renal failure? You only mention "showing signs of kidney damage". The recipient needs to be healthy enough to survive the surgery and cannot have a transplant if any infection, especially blood infection, is present.
Usually if someone is in renal failure, the doctors will put them on dialysis before doing a kidney transplant. It is possible that medical problems other than kidney failure were present and responsible for the death. In that case, a kidney transplant would not have helped.
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