Why My Creatinine Elevates After Kidney Transplant

Many end stage renal failure patients regard kidney transplant the last hope to rebuild their kidney functions and prolong their life expectancy. A successful kidney transplant can enable patients 10 times more kidney functions than dialysis so as to help them get rid of dialysis and return to a more normal life.

However many patients complain that their high creatinine once again appear years or months after they received the new kidneys. Persistent high creatinine means that their transplanted kidneys are once again damaged and many patients will even develop into renal failure and need to do another kidney transplant.

One common cause of second failure of the transplanted kidney is organ rejection that nearly all kidney transplant patients will experience, no matter how matching the kidney donor is. If it is found out of that elevated creatinine is due to renal damages caused by rejection, doctors will have to increase dosage or change the medicines that patients are taking.

If kidney failure is caused by hypertension or diabetes, poorly controlled high blood pressure and high blood sugar will once again cause the failure of the transplanted kidney and patients will have high creatinine, therefore it is very important to bring high blood pressure and high blood sugar well under control.

And if patients have the following pathological conditions, kidney transplant is not recommended or the life span of the transplanted kidney will be affected.

·kidney failure is caused by systemic disease such as amyloidosis, nodular arterial inflammation and diffuse vasculitis, etc. Because these systemic diseases will affect the transplanted kidney.

·serious systemic infections, tuberculosis, peptic ulcer and malignant tumors, etc.

·serious heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and liver cirrhosis, etc.

Many patients do not pay enough attention to protect their new kidney after the surgery. For example, many patients may begin to have a lot of meat, drink alcohol, etc. Therefore it is very important that patients should pay enough attention to their daily diets and lifestyle so as to improve the life span of the transplanted kidneys and lower the risk of kidney disease relapse and developing high creatinine again.