Evaluation screening program before kidney transplantation

The evaluation and examination program before kidney transplantation is mainly for the donor’s examination and the recipient’s examination, including the general program examination and the transplantation kidney related examination and so on. 1. General examination: blood test, electrocardiogram, liver and kidney function, electrolytes, coagulation function, etc. In addition, it is necessary to do infectious disease examination, such as AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis, etc., if there are infectious diseases, people’s kidneys can not be used as a source of kidneys. 2. Kidney transplantation related examination: assess the source of donor kidney, the age of donor, whether there are special diseases and so on. Nephrogram examination is also needed to know the glomerular filtration rate of both kidneys of the donor. Kidney transplantation requires checking the recipient’s transplantation-related antibodies, donor and recipient HLA loci, etc. All in all, the preoperative preparation for kidney transplantation is quite a lot, and you need to go to a regular public hospital and have your preoperative assessment done by a specialist.