* A small percentage of the population (approximately .07 percent) are born with more than two kidneys. An even smaller percentage (about .02 percent) are born with only one kidney.
* The average adult kidney can process up to three gallons of liquid in a two-hour period.
* The first successful kidney transplant recipient was Donald R. Sugeman of London, England. He received his kidney in 1954 and survived 12 years after receiving his kidney.
* The youngest kidney recipient ever was 3-month old Aleisha C Christensen of the Netherlands. She was born with acute renal failure which necessitated the transplant. An 18-year-old cousin was the donor.
End-stage renal disease (ESRD)
Prevalence (2004): 472,099 U.S. residents were under treatment as of the end of the calendar year.
Resulting from these primary diseases:
Diabetes: 172,938
Hypertension: 114,481
Glomerulonephritis: 77,121
Cystic kidney: 21,397
All other: 86,162
Incidence (2004): 104,364 U.S. residents were new beneficiaries of treatment.
Resulting from these primary diseases:
Diabetes: 45,871
Hypertension: 28,132
Glomerulonephritis: 8,490
Cystic kidney: 2,295
All other: 19,576
Mortality (2004): Among U.S. residents, there were 170 deaths per 1,000 patient years. There were 84,252 deaths in all patients undergoing ESRD treatment.
Number of kidney transplants performed in the U.S.:
2004: 16,905
2000: 14,582
1995: 12,133
1990: 10,016
1985: 7,500
1980: 3,784
Number of people awaiting transplants (February 16, 2007):
Kidney (only): 74,000
Kidney and pancreas: 2,457
Dialysis survival (probability of patients surviving, from day 91 of ESRD, unadjusted):
1 year (2003–2004): 77.7
2 years (2002–2004): 62.6
5 years (1999–2004): 31.9
10 years (1994–2004): 10.0
Patient survival following deceased-donor transplant (probability of recipients surviving, from day 1 of transplantation, unadjusted):
1 year (2003–2004): 94.3
2 years (2002–2004): 91.1
5 years (1999–2004): 81.2
10 years (1994–2004): 59.4
4 comments:
I deduce from these figures that you're not having a particularly happy birthday. Sorry about that. I know Jennie is on the kidney/pancreas list, but is she on the kidney only list as well? Is there any reason why she can't get a kidney now (from a family member) and a pancreas later?
Not a particularly chipper post for me either, being that one side of my family has diabetes and the other hypertension.
Happy Birthday??? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
*toots party horn*
now please excuse me while I google "Glomerulonephritis"....
Wow. Things I didn't know. So, more than anything, we got to manifest a nice pink pancreas.
This birthday was pretty damned depressing, yes.
I don't know all of the actual arguments a doctor would make, but I know that a kidney/pancreas transplant has a higher success rate than just a kidney transplant. Also, with the dual transplant there is less risk of rejection than if she received organs from two sources.
...and Glomerulonephritis sounds to me like a Klingon aphrodisiac.
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