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Is It Safe For Kidney Transplant With One Kidney Infected?
Can a child receive a kidney transplant when her existing single kidney is infected or to wait for medication to control the disease. Swelling noticed in kidney after sonography as protein was noted leaking in the urine. Will the Infected kidney harm the healthy kidney recently transplanted
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Tue, 23 Sep 2014
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Thu, 4 Dec 2014
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Suggest to treat the kidney infection prior to transplantation. Need for transplantation to be clearly specified. Is the child on dialysis or does the child have irreversible kidney disorder in the existing kidney. Regards
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