patients who receive a kidney transplant typically live longer than those who stay on dialysis. A living donor kidney functions, on average, 12 to 20 years, and a deceased donor kidney from 8 to 12 years.
Patients who get a kidney transplant before dialysis live an average of 10 to 15 years longer than if they stayed on dialysis. Younger adults benefit the most from a kidney transplant, but even adults as old as 75 gain an average of four more years after a transplant than if they had stayed on dialysis.
After surgery, you will be is transferred to the surgical intermediate or intensive care unit. Gradually, you and your care partner will practice administering necessary medications under the close supervision of the transplant pharmacist, nephrologist, endocrinologist and surgeon. This prepares you to handle taking your medications properly at home.
The usual hospital stay is 4-5 days for a kidney transplant and 7 days for a combined kidney-pancreas transplant, but you could stay shorter or longer depending on how healthy you were before surgery, and how well your body is responding to the transplanted organ(s).
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