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CONTINOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS (CAPD)
Living Donors - family members make the closest tissue matches.
Cadaver - from people who have decided to donate their organs when they die.
Diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of renal failure.
Hypertension and gloromerulonephritis are the other important causes.
There are two types of kidney failure.
- The acute - Which is reversible.
- The
chronic - Which is irreversible.
PONDICHERRY KIDNEY FOUNDATION
(A Public Charitable Trust)
Regd No. 1262/2003
No. 470, Mahatma Gandhi Road , Pondicherry -605 003
Pondicherry Kidney Foundation, a Registered Public Charitable Trust Founded by
Dr.K.Narayanan,MD.,(Med.)DM(Nephro),DNB.(Nephro).
Consultant Nephrologist and
transplant physician, Kidney centre. Pondicherry , on September 12,2003, to
provide Health care medical treatment and financial assistance to needy
patients with kidney diseases.
First of all kidney problems are not easily detected in time. And , even after they are detected , the treatment is expensive and not affordable by all. Given the high cost Renal Transplantation , only a minority affords it. Dialysis is also beyond the means of many. The trust intends to help the kidney failure patients by subsidizing the cost of dialysis.
