KIDNEY FAILURE, DIALYSIS, KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
On 1 July 1965, Professor George Lucas and his team realized the first kidney transplant in Liege. We just celebrated our 50th birthday. Since then, more than 1,250 patients have been transplanted at the university hospital. Transplant is the ultimate best solution for end-stage kidney disease patients under 70 years of age. Before the transplant and while waiting for it, there is, for the most part, dialysis, a supplement to the poor functioning of the kidneys, which has allowed tens of thousands of patients to wait since its development, sometimes (too much ) for a long time this happy event which somehow brings them back to life. Renal transplantation is the best treatment for severe renal failure, if possible, by favoring more living donors, even unrelated donors, as has just been recently published (New Engl J Med March 2016). Living kidney donation is proportionately little chosen in our country for various reasons, particularly that of a too-late arrival in the development of re...