China News Service, Guangzhou, May 31st (Cai Minjie, Wu Xiaodan, Han Yurou) On the 31st, a group of special children celebrated their Children's Day in advance at the Pearl River Hospital of Southern Medical University. Kidney transplant surgery.

Zhao Ming, director of the Organ Transplantation Department of the hospital, said that children's kidney transplantation is difficult, and the success of the operation is only the first step in the success of children's kidney transplantation.

　　At the event, the medical staff not only provided popular science answers on anti-rejection treatment after kidney transplantation and dietary precautions after kidney transplantation, but also prepared Children's Day gifts for the "new kidney babies".

　　Zichu (pseudonym) is a 14-year-old boy. In early 2018, due to "chronic renal failure (uremia stage), Zichu received a kidney transplant in a Shanghai hospital. It was declared a failure. Since then, he has continued to wait for a suitable kidney source while undergoing a long peritoneal dialysis treatment. However, many transplant centers in China believe that the risk of re-transplantation is high and the chance is slim.

　　During the period, due to complications such as arterial bleeding, he could only stay in bed for a long time at a young age, and could not enjoy a happy childhood like other children.

After tossing and turning, I found out that high-antibody kidney transplantation is a feature of the Organ Transplantation Department of Zhujiang Hospital, and my parents brought their son to Zhujiang Hospital for treatment.

　　On January 1, 2021, Lucky Zichu was matched again with a suitable kidney donor.

The Pearl River Hospital team adopted targeted treatment to avoid allergenic sites, and successfully performed a kidney transplant for Zichu.

Now more than a year has passed, Zichu's kidney function has recovered well. He loves life and is versatile. He also likes to learn multiple languages.

　　On May 31 this year, Zhao Ming conducted a video return visit with the mother of Zichu, who was far away in Dalian.

"The child is now in the first year of junior high, and everything is fine. I take him for blood and kidney function tests every two weeks. The child also knows to take medicine on time, because medicine is the guarantee of life and the guarantee of the kidneys."

　　Children's Day is approaching, Zichu's mother bought him books in English as holiday gifts, and hoped that he would grow up healthy.

　　Zhao Ming said that unlike the causes of adult kidney disease, nearly 60% of children's kidney disease are congenital, such as congenital glomerulonephritis and gene variant nephropathy.

　　Chronic kidney disease in children is an important social problem, and kidney transplantation is the best treatment option for children with end-stage renal disease.

Compared with dialysis, kidney transplantation can not only improve the long-term survival rate of children, but also help their growth and development and improve the quality of life.

　　In August 2018, my country revised its organ allocation policy to prioritize the allocation of child kidneys to child recipients, which promoted the development of child kidney transplantation in China.

Like Zichu, the number of transplanted children carrying the lives and dreams of two children in a small body is increasing.

　　At present, there are about 1,000 children waiting for kidney transplantation in my country, and the number is increasing every year, but only about 300 children will be transplanted in 2021.

　　"The reason why children's kidney transplantation has been carried out less before is mainly because it is very difficult to perform this operation on children." Zhao Ming said, because the children's kidney blood vessels are slender, only as thick as a pencil lead, and the operation and the early postoperative period are very difficult. Vascular torsion is prone to thrombosis, leading to unsuccessful transplantation.

　　In addition, Zhao Ming said that the successful operation is only the first step in the success of children's kidney transplantation, and the strict observation during the perioperative period should not be ignored, which determines whether the donor kidney can survive or not.

This is also one of the main reasons why only a few units in the country have carried out children's kidney transplantation on a large scale.

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