New Delhi: Donating a kidney is a voluntary act of an individual that can be done while alive or after death. In India, the organ donation rate stands at 0.34 per million in a country of 1.3 billion people, unfortunately, the country has a shortage of organ donors, especially deceased donors with only 15,000 donors available for over 200,000 patients waiting for kidney transplants. Recently, research revealed that donating a kidney is now safer than ever. According to a study published on Wednesday, the risk of death for people who donated their kidneys has reduced by over half in the last decade, reported NBC News.
Risk of death has been reduced
The study noted that the overall risk of death for a kidney donor has always been very low but the advancement in technologies in surgeries and medical care. Along with this, you need to select your donor very carefully to be safe from the odds.
The kidney is the more crucial organ of the body that is responsible for flushing out all the harmful toxins from the blood and regulating blood pressure levels. The need for kidney donors has increased swiftly in recent years and that is also because of multiple factors including, diabetes, and high blood pressure which are the most common reasons behind the rise in renal diseases.
The study has been published in JAMA, and the doctors studied the data insights on people who died within 90 days after a kidney transplant surgery from 1993 to 2022. The data was gathered from both the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Around 164,593 kidney donors have been included in the study for examination and out of them thirty-six died within 90 days after the donation.
How is a new way of donating a kidney different from earlier?
For the study, the doctors used laparoscopic surgery which is a minimally invasive technique where the surgeons used small incisions and specialised instruments to remove the kidney. On the other hand, earlier, the patients underwent an open donor nephrectomy which required a much larger incision that required longer time for recovery and more dangers of health complications.
As per the study, during earlier times donors who were male and people with a history of high blood pressure were more likely to die within 90 days of the surgery as compared to the other donors. While most of the deaths took place in the first seven days after the surgery and the most common cause of death from the procedure was excessive bleeding.
Recently, research revealed that donating a kidney is now safer than ever. According to a study published on Wednesday, the risk of death for people who donated their kidneys has reduced by over half in the last decade. The study has been published in JAMA, and the doctors studied the data insights on people who died within 90 days after a kidney transplant surgery from 1993 to 2022. Health Conditions Health News: Latest News from Health Care, Mental Health, Weight Loss, Disease, Nutrition, Healthcare
