Kidney Transplant Services - East Coast Renal Services
How we can help you
Our service helps you if you have advanced kidney disease and need a kidney transplant. A kidney transplant is a surgery to place a healthy kidney from a living or deceased person into a person whose kidney is no longer working properly.
We perform over 50 kidney transplants a year at Prince of Wales Hospital. Before and after the procedure people are cared for by their local Hospital either St George Hospital, Wollongong Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital or St Vincent’s Hospital.
Our services include:
- assessing whether a transplant is a suitable treatment for you
- assessing those who want to donate a kidney
- providing education to donors and recipients and their families
- biopsy and transplant pathology
- telephone or videoconference services
- yearly follow up of transplant recipients.
Our Transplant service is one of the oldest in Australia and performed the first kidney transplant in NSW on 5 August 1965 - this was only the second successful kidney transplant in Australia.