Kidney Transplant - Donor Had Hematuria
Sep 2, 2013
I'm posting here on behalf of my sister in law. She's 29 years and since 2 years she's in dialysis. We're looking at the option to perform a transplant.
Her mother is a potential donor and we did all the tests. Everything was fine except for Hematuria (that is Erythrocytes in urine). After the doctors reviewed the result they told us she can't donate. I feel that while she may not be the best donor, they didn't want to take any risk.
I wanted to ask if anyone did a transplant while the donor had Hematuria?
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Again doctor treated with some antibiotics. With the help of those antibiotics there was no fever.
Again after a week we went under urine test the result was same.
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So my doctor referred to a Nephrologists.
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Today again we went for urine test still the results are same Color yellow, protein present+, puss cells 9-10 and rbc 7-8.
My Nephrologists told me that there is no problem as the protein level is low.
He told me to regularly do urine test every 3 months and keep a track of protein level.
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