The success of transplantation is very good in this era compared for the previous eras.
When we say success we speak of graft survival and patient survival for 1st year, 5th and 10th years.
The one year graft survival is 95% and patient survival is 98%.
By this we mean of 100 patients who undergo transplantation 98 of them would be alive and 95 of the grafts would be functioning.
This is excellent and there is further decline in 5 year and 10 year survival rates.
For some you may be thinking why as to that 2 patients die and 5 grafts fail, it is mainly because of rejections and infections.
Now that you may ask as to who is prone for that and why? I would say it cannot be predicted in advance and if we could, we would not have transplanted them.
So why should we get transplanted at all! What if we fall in the failing 5 or 2. For this you have to read the survival on dialysis given elsewhere in the page.
Their 1year survival is much much less on dialysis compared to transplantation and average life span is 5 to 10 years and when we compare this to transplantation, it is definitely more and quality of life is also appreciable.
The only thing that can go wrong in transplantation is immediate postoperative morbidity and very rarely mortality. There is risk for life like with any surgery and risk of rejections or infections but once this phase goes off uneventfully everything will be a cake walk. If in fear of these immediate and other late complications someone doesn't undergo transplant, they may evade these for sometime but ultimately live less longer than transplanted patients.
The success of transplantation in India is as good as in any other well developed nations.
Yes there is risk of rejections and infections including threat to life in transplantation but evading this doesn't necessarily improve life span or give quality life on dialysis in comparison.
Stop worrying about complications start thinking positively. There is nothing we or you can do but to think positively.
