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Glossary
Anesthesiology
– this is the department in the hospital
that gives medicine to block pain during surgery. An
anesthesiologist is the doctor who sees a person before
surgery to learn a patient’s history and collect blood
work to know what type of anesthesia will work for that
person.
Dialysis
– a treatment in which a machine removes
harmful wastes from your blood.
Donor
– a person who gives one of their organs to
someone who needs one. This individual can be living
or deceased.
End Stage Renal Disease
– a point in kidney disease
where your kidneys fail to work.
Hepatitis
– This is a liver disease that comes in three
types: A, B or C. If a person has hepatitis, he or she can
not donate a kidney.
Kidney failure
– when your kidneys are no longer able
to remove harmful wastes from your blood.
Kidney transplant
– when someone else’s kidney is
placed in you through surgery.
Living kidney donation
– when a friend or relative
donates one of his or her kidneys to you.
Medicare
– government health insurance for people
who have certain disabilities, who have end stage renal
disease or are 65 years and older.
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