Siliconindia Magazine

Restoring Lives, Kidney By Kidney

Kidney transplant surgeons are an integral part of changing the lives of patients with end-stage renal disease. They are surgical specialists who trained extensively in complex procedural surgery, with an emphasis on organ transplantations, minimally invasive surgery, and robotic surgery. While they provide pre-transplant evaluation, often in conjunction with nephrologists, transitions to surgery and surgical planning, and postoperative management of the kidney transplant recipient, they meet the transplant recipient at the time of transplant surgery, a year. When kidney transplant surgeons evaluate patients both pre-operatively and in the operation theatre, they act as part of a collaborative team of nephrologists, anesthesiologists, pathologists, transplant coordinators, etc. Every...