Abstract

SANCHEZ-TOCINO, Mª Luz. The Fight in renal replacement therapy. Let's go for the fourth kidney transplant. Index Enferm [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.1, pp.43-46.  Epub Sep 19, 2022. ISSN 1699-5988.

Patients with chronic kidney failure make dialysis a way of life, many describe the peritoneal cycler as “your partner” at night and hemodialysis, a part-time job every other day. But most of them live thinking about changing that involuntary night life as a couple or work and return to the freedom that kidney transplantation gives you. This story recounts the constant struggle of a woman whose “rare disease”, Alport syndrome, led her to receive both dialysis treatments before she was twenty. Thirty years later, even with her hearing and visual limitations, three transplants and several hospitals where she has been leaving friends, she does not lose her smile and optimism, waiting for her dream of a fourth “bionic” transplant to leave her again, on the list of unemployment of the trade of dialysis.

Keywords : Chronic Renal Insufficiency; Hemodialysis; Renal Transplantation; Alport Syndrome.