| Kidneys are the master chemists of your body. They | | | | have developed our aptitude to make a diagnosis and |
| supervise the condition of the blood, segregating | | | | treat those who have kidney disorders. Still when the |
| damaging substances from valuable ones, proceeding | | | | kidneys no longer work, treatments like dialysis and |
| not merely as waste disposal units but like | | | | transplantation have given expectation and factually |
| complicated sieves too that salvage valuable | | | | new life to hundreds of thousands of people. |
| substances that slip through the holes. The kidneys | | | | A donated kidney might originate from an unknown |
| preserve the inner environment necessary for life. | | | | donor who has newly died or from a person alive, |
| We could survive very well with simply one kidney | | | | typically a relative. The kidney that you accept should |
| and a number of people really live healthily although | | | | be a good match for your body. The more the new |
| born with one missing. But while bones may break, | | | | kidney is like you, the less probable your immune |
| muscles could waste away and the brain could sleep | | | | system is to refuse it. Your immune system keeps |
| with no risk to life, if both kidneys fail, as occurs in | | | | you from disease by assaulting everything that is not |
| end stage kidney failure, bone, muscle or brain could | | | | known as a normal part of your body. Therefore |
| not keep on. Our body dies with no any kidney | | | | your immune system will assault a kidney that comes |
| function. | | | | out overly foreign. You will get special medicines to |
| Kidneys do essential functions that have an effect on | | | | assist deceive your immune system thus it does not |
| all parts of the body and are involved in complex | | | | refuse the transplanted kidney. |
| operations that keep the rest of the body in | | | | In the region of transplantation, new medicines to |
| equilibrium. When the kidneys are injured by disease, | | | | assist the body receive foreign tissue add to the |
| other organs are involved. Kidney problems could | | | | probability that a transplanted kidney will stay alive |
| vary from a slight urinary tract infection to | | | | and run well. Scientists at NIDDK are developing new |
| progressive kidney failure. | | | | methods too to induce tolerance for foreign tissue in |
| When a person's kidneys break down in total, it's | | | | patients prior to they get transplanted organs. |
| named kidney failure. One who has kidney failure may | | | | This method will get rid of or lessen the need for |
| build up many health problems since the body is not | | | | immunosuppressive medicines and thus decrease |
| capable to dispose of surplus water and waste | | | | expense and problems. One day, scientists can |
| products. | | | | develop an artificial kidney for implantation. |
| Scientific developments over the past three decades | | | | |