Donor Testing
The number of persons you can have go through end to end donor testing at once.
What is 1?
The category of medication that prevents a recipient's immune system from attacking the new kidney.
What is immune suppression medication?
The frequency at which blood tests are taken for the first 8 weeks after transplant.
What is 2 times a week?
The size of this is used to determine if the kidney is placed on the front left or the front right of the abdomen in adolescents and adults.
What is the renal artery?
The two types of dialysis.
What are hemo and peritoneal?
The person who is responsible for navigating the donor through donor testing and contacting potential donors.
Who is the donor coordinator?
These are three types of prophylactic medications given to prevent infection after transplant.
What is anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-fungal?
The test that measures levels of an immune suppression medication.
What is Tacrolimus test?
Low Hemoglobin levels have a correlation to the need for this during surgery.
What is a transfusion?
This term is used to set the weight goal for dialysis patients.
The number of tissue types that are evaluated in the tissue type test.
What is 6?
A type of immune suppression drug that you may not have to take for the rest of your life.
What is a steriod?
Taken every 3 months this is a measure of the concentration of antibodies in the blood.
What is the DSA (donor specific antibody) titers test?
Used to attach the renal artery to the artery in the leg when the sizing is off.
What is a stent?
Used in hemodyalysis, this type of catheter is found in the neck and has a direct tube into the heart.
What is a central venous catheter?
The blood type a donor has to be for a recipient with type A+ blood.
What is A-, A+, O+, and O-?
These supplements are commonly given after transplant until the new kidney is able to maintain the normal levels.
What are phosphorus, magnesium, and vitamin D?
There are five reasons why the creatinine will creep up in a transplant patients. (Hint: They all end in 'tion'.
What is Hydration, Rejection, Medication, Infection, and Obstruction?
After transplant, while in the hospital, this measurement is used to help assess the effectiveness of the transplanted kidney.
What is urine output?
True or False: One benefit of a diaylsis catheter is that it can be used while in the hospital for administering medication.
False.
The point at which you can begin donor testing.
What is when the doctor classifies the patient as "end stage renal disease" and/or when the GFR is less than 20?
This family of blood pressure medication helps prevent scarring of the kidneys before and after transplant but may worsen kidney function in patients who are approaching end stage renal disease (ESRD).
What is Ace Inhibitors?
The test that is used to decipher the immune supression medications' impact on the recipient's immune system.
What is the white blood cell count differential test?
A procedure used to verify if a kidney is rejecting.
What is a biopsy?
A graphical representation used to measure the real-time effect of fluid removal on the body during dialysis.
What is the crit-line?