TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.
TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.
Transplant is a treatment for kidney failure using a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor that can help patients live a longer, more normal life than dialysis treatment.
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They dont explain it though.
I presume the kidneys dies out on its own and the cells get recycled by the body?
If they took it out, it would leave a big cavity that they would have to fill with beans.
Oh no, we're not starting that shit again!
Why are you red?
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Prob an admin of your instance
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That's the fucker with all the extra kidneys
one large mean green kidney bean??
mmm Beans
If they filled the space with kidney beans, then they'd have even more kidneys!
you mean dry ramen, right?
Yeah, but if you get the right beans type, it can form a new kidney and then you'll have two kidneys again after the transplant. If you get it wrong, then there's a chance of rejection, though. So most doctors don't use beans.
Removing it is more traumatic to the body, so they just leave it in.
I wonder how they found that out.
- Hey Nick, where did you put the old kidney I can't see it anywhere?
- Uh-oh... It's... I'm sure it's fine, listen I have to run to a meeting, just keep an eye on this patient.
Nah, it’s still there just not doing anything. If it’s not infected or anything wrong beside it being lazy there’s no need to remove it.
You can never have too many kidneys.
It's more that there's a higher risk of complications if they remove the old kidneys. However, they do start taking them out if you've had more than two transplants.
How many kidneys can one body hold!
As many as necessary, really. The only reason they start getting removed is because of the risk of infection and stuff being higher than the risk of complications with the surgery after a certain point.
It's complicated, subjective, and probably varies country-to-country.
they don't completely disappear, but they do die and shrivel up.