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What Is The Life Expectancy After A Kidney Transplant?

what is the life expectancy of a 67 year old male, that does not excrise ecellent with taking his meds, smoke a filtered cigar at lease 1 to two times a day. on diaylias three time a week for the most part in very good healt. has high blood ptrssure. diabetes run in his mother's side of family. for kidney transplant.
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hello and welcome to HCM.
As an Urologist and transplant surgeon, i can understand your anxiety.
It's difficult to accurately predict, the life span for any person on dialysis.
But the risk factors like smoking,B.P.,and lack of exercise are not very healthy, for a longer survival,with a good quality of life.
The life expectancy in an otherwise healthy graft, would've been about 10-15 years, without any risk factors.
You can certainly consider a second transplant,from a related donor, if possible,with a good HLA match.
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What Is The Life Expectancy After A Kidney Transplant?

Hello and welcome to HCM. As an Urologist and transplant surgeon, i can understand your anxiety. It s difficult to accurately predict, the life span for any person on dialysis. But the risk factors like smoking,B.P.,and lack of exercise are not very healthy, for a longer survival,with a good quality of life. The life expectancy in an otherwise healthy graft, would ve been about 10-15 years, without any risk factors. You can certainly consider a second transplant,from a related donor, if possible,with a good HLA match.