| Author | Subject: Re: Welcome New Bulletin Board Members |
| Beth Witten | Posted At 00:48:42 02/28/2003 I sounds like your boyfriend is experiencing a rejection episode. I don't know whether he is being followed by the transplant program or by his local kidney specialist. If he hasn't already done so, he needs to contact the transplant coordinator at the hospital where he got his kidney transplant right away. Based on his increasing creatinine, he/she can decide how best to treat him. Sometimes treatment will stop the rejection and sometimes even with treatment, the kidney will fail. If your boyfriend does reject the kidney, he can do dialysis. He can also get on the transplant list and get another transplant, assuming his health is OK otherwise. I've known several people who've had multiple kidney transplants. There is information on transplant rejection on Medline Plus at: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000815.htm |