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I recently underwent some life-changing moments and needed some crucial advice to make critical decisions. I wanted to share my experience with others who may be facing similar challenges in life!

I have recently moved to Delhi with my family comprising of my parents, wife and a toddler. It was a difficult move as it was not easy to convince my old parents to leave their home-town in Kerala and move with me to a region which is absolutely new for them, no prior visits, no relatives or friends, new environment and that too at this juncture of their lives. Both me and my wife had to make quite an effort to convince them. We were looking forward to our stay in the capital city. But destiny had other plans! The day we landed in the city, my father who was suffering from kidney troubles, got sick. We had to immediately find a doctor in NCR. We didn’t know any one. That’s when Medikreview came to our rescue. It helped us in connecting to the best kidney doctors for Best Kidney Transplant Surgeon in Delhi NCR .

It was only through Medikreview that we not only were able to find a doctor near to our house at a good hospital, but also read the reviews other patients had provided for the doctor as well as the hospital. This helped us not getting confused or duped during our days of crisis. The review mechanism used by the Medikreview is absolutely fair and non-sponsored by any individual doctor or some big hospital.

We were able to choose the right doctor at the suitable hospital and make informed decisions instead of relying on some random choices that we would have repented later. In line with the ratings, the hospital staff was extremely helpful and caring. We cannot thank the doctor enough, who true to his reputation, treated my father and ensured that he had no issues at the time of recovery.

Post-the surgery, me and my father both ensured to logon to Medikreview and provide our ratings and reviews of the doctor and the hospital. It was our manner of saying ‘thank you’. We hope that with sharing our positive experience with others over the Internet, we are able to spread the words about their efforts and that they are encouraged to keep up the good work.

I have suggested the website Medikreview to my friends, relatives and colleagues. It can be of great help to anyone who is facing a medical crisis or even needs a second opinion.

We are thankful to the creators and team of Medikreview for providing this wonderful opportunity to know your doctor or healthcare establishment before visiting them and rate or review them later. 

Organ transplantation is the process of transfer of an organ from one body to another. Organ transplantation is the only solution for the end state of an organ failure such as heart, lung, Kidney, Bone Marrow and kidney.

Many times the patient has to wait for long time for an organ to be transplanted, as doctors decide and match the correct organ from the donor so as to reduce the risk of transplant rejection by the body’s immune system.

Some of the organs that can be transplanted for the cure of life are:

• Bone Marrow transplant
• Liver transplant
• Lungs transplant
• Kidney transplant
• Heart transplant

Bone Marrow transplant:

Bone marrow is a spongy tissue inside some of the bones in the body including the hip and thigh bone. Bone marrow consists of immature cells called as stem cells.

A number of people with blood cancer and other such life threatening diseases mostly rely upon bone marrow or cold blood transplant to survive. People need healthy bone marrow to survive and lead a healthy life.

Factors about Bone marrow:

 Bone marrow transplant can save the lives of people battling blood cancers.

At birth, all bone marrow is in red color. As the age increases red marrow increasingly begins to convert to yellow marrow.

Aplastic anemia is such a disorder where marrow stops making new blood cells (RBC’s).

Chemotherapy can damage bone marrow

Complications associated with Bone marrow transplant:

Bone marrow transplant is considered as one of the most major and crucial transplants and the transplant may increase the risk of-

Headache

Pain in bones

Fever

Shortened breath

Nausea

These factors are caused due to bone marrow transplant but these factors also depends on over your age, your health and the type of transplant you have gone under.

Even the patient can feel complications which can be mild or very serious after the transplant such as:

• GVHD i.e. Graft Versus host disease where the donor cells start to attack the patient’s body. This takes place when the transplanted bone Marrow does not produce any new cell as planned.
• Bleeding in various parts of the body such as brain and Lungs.
• Damage to various other organs.
• A person becomes Anemic.

Various types of bone marrow transplants are:

• Autologous Transplant
• Allogeneic Transplant

Typically the recovery time of a bone marrow transplant is around three months but to recover it may take around a year depending on various factors such as:

• Donor match
• Radiations
• Chemotherapy
• Place of transplant
• Health factors

It can also be a condition that after transplant the patient might experience some symptoms that might remain with him for a lifetime. The maximum cost of Bone Marrow transplant in India lies between 20 to 30 lakhs whereas it varies from place to place. Whereas, Heart surgeries are one of the rarest surgery and require so much of safety and precautions the heart surgery cost in India is no less than $7500.

Liver Transplant:

The liver is an important organ of our body and is located on the right side in our body behind the rib cage. It performs various kinds of function inside our body such as protein processing, fats, and carbohydrate processing. It also plays an important role by breaking down the toxic substances such as drugs and alcohol. Liver transplantation mostly occurs when our liver stops working and get damaged due to excessive intake of alcohols, drugs, and smoking.

Liver transplantation is a process where the damaged or diseased liver is replaced with a healthy liver. There is two type of donors for liver transplant such as-

• Deceased donor
• Living donor

Liver transplant surgery in India costs 18 to 20 lakh whereas it is not fixed, it varies from doctor to doctor and clinic to clinic.