Kidney Matters Issue 13 - Summer 2021
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. This issue includes features on music and mental heath, a transplant patient rediscovering a love of art to keep herself motivated, a teacher and CKD patient who helped anyone struggling with home-schooling their children during lockdown, medical articles about having a stent removed after a transplant, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease and how weight management can affect kidney patients following transplant. As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen explains how tomatoes can be safely included in your diet and shares a simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe especially prepared for kidney patients.
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease.
This issue includes features on music and mental heath, a transplant patient rediscovering a love of art to keep herself motivated, a teacher and CKD patient who helped anyone struggling with home-schooling their children during lockdown, medical articles about having a stent removed after a transplant, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease and how weight management can affect kidney patients following transplant.
As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen explains how tomatoes can be safely included in your diet and shares a simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe especially prepared for kidney patients.
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Having a stent removed after
your transplant
Having a stent put in place during your operation is a common part of transplant
surgery. Whilst not painful, having the stent removed six weeks later can be a little
uncomfortable, as Sam Turner, Consultant Transplant Surgeon at the North Bristol NHS
Trust, explains.
During your kidney transplant procedure, a stent
will be placed within the transplant ureter (the tube
connecting the kidney to the bladder). The stent is a
thin plastic tube with a curly ‘pigtail’ at either end to
keep it in place. One end sits in the transplant kidney,
the other end in the bladder, with the longer segment
of the tube sitting in the transplant ureter. The stent
prevents urine leaks and narrowing of the ureter in the
early period following the transplant. If the stent is left
in for too long, it has a higher chance of causing an
infection in the urine.
The stent removal procedure
Around four to six weeks after the transplant, you will
be invited to the hospital to have the stent removed.
This procedure is usually performed in the hospital
outpatients department by either a clinical nurse
specialist or doctor with an assistant. You will stay
awake, as the whole procedure is only seconds to
minutes long and there is no need for a general
anaesthetic.
In a private room you will be asked to lie on a trolley.
Your external genitalia will be cleaned with some cold
antiseptic fluid and anaesthetic jelly will be applied.
This can be uncomfortable and make your toes curl for
a few seconds, but it helps to numb and lubricate the
area. This numbness can last a few hours.
“You will stay awake, as the whole
procedure is only seconds to
minutes long and there is no need
for a general anaesthetic“
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