De Los Santos Medical Center offers the
Z-benefit Package for Kidney Transplantation
Criteria:
| 1 | Signed Member Empowerment (ME) Form |
| 2 | Age ›10 and ‹70 years |
| 3 | Single organ transplant |
| 4 | Patient on chronic dialysis because of end stage renal disease or patient for pre-emptive kidney transplantation with the following: a. The potential recipient should have an irreversible renal disease that has been progressive over the previous 6 – 12 months b. The recipient’s measured (nuclear scan) glomerular filtration rate, 24-hour urine creatinine clearance or calculated glomerular filtration rate should be less than 20 ml/min/1.73m2 in diabetics or less than 15 ml/min / 1.73m2 in patients with non-diabetic renal disease |
| 5 | Low immunologic risk defined as: a. Past Panel Reactive Antibody (PRA) less than or equal to 20% b. Primary kidney transplant (no previous solid organ transplant) c. No donor specific antibody (DSA) in the potential recipient d. At least 1 HLA-DR match |
| 6 | Potential recipient has no previous history of cancer (except basal cell skin cancer), should be HIV negative, Hepatitis B surface antigen negative, and Hepatitis C antibody negative |
| 7 | Transplant candidate who is CMV-negative cannot receive an organ from a CMV-positive donor. |
| 8 | Absence of current severe illness (Congestive heart failure Class 3-4, liver cirrhosis (findings of small liver with coarse granular/heterogonous echo pattern with signs of portal hypertension), chronic lung disease requiring oxygen, etc.) |
| 9 | Absence of the following: hemi-paralysis because of stroke, leg amputation because of peripheral vascular disease or diabetes, mental retardation such that informed consent cannot be made, and substance abuse for at least 6 months prior to start of transplant work-up. |
| 10 | Eligible patient for kidney transplant must have a certification from the social service of the hospital that they can maintain anti-rejection medicines for the next three (3) years. |
(Source: PhilHealth)
For more information, please contact:
Kidney Transplant Office
2/F Main Hospital Building
889-DLSMC (35762) ext. 3531
ktu@dlsmc.ph
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