Kidney

• While waiting for a kidney transplant, many patients can undergo daily dialysis treatments, to clean toxins out of blood.
• Some conditions that could make a kidney transplant necessary are high blood pressure, diabetes and cystic kidney disease.
• The kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organ and most in need.
• The kidneys can be preserved outside of the body for up to 36 hours before transplant into a recipient; they are blood typed and matched for size and weight of the donor.