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nelaaney

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This patient has had two previous kidney transplants. What are the potential sources for a donor kidney? How is rejection prevented after a kidney transplant? What does it mean when the physician states she is experiencing acute rejection?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Mr. Campbell was ordered a mechanical soft diet when he was admitted to the hospital. Describe how his meals will be modified with this diet order.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Kidney transplantation is classified as a deceased-donor or living-donor transplantation. Living-donor transplants are either genetically related or non-related transplants.
Rejection is prevented with a combination of medications that assist to suppress the immune system including: Imuran, Simulect, corticosteroids, muromonab-CD3, CellCept, cyclosporin, Rapamune, Prograf, immunoglobulins, and monoclonal antibodies.
Acute rejection indicates that the recipient's signs and symptoms demonstrate the reduced function of the kidney and immune attack against it.

Answer to Question 2

 This diet consists of foods that are mechanically altered by blending, chopping, grinding, or mashing so that they are easy to chew and swallow.
 Use gravies, sauces, vegetable/ fruit juice, milk, half & half, broth, or water from cooking to moisten foods when mechanically altering and serving.
 Casseroles or salads are served moist and without large chunks of meat or vegetables.
 Soups are served with small pieces of easy to chew and swallow meats and vegetables.
 Vegetables are cooked tender enough to be easily mashed with a fork.
 Bread products are mixed with sauce, gravy, or syrup until the bread product begins to dissolve into a slurry.
 Sticky and chewy foods such as peanut butter and caramel are not served.
 Nuts; seeds; overly dry foods; and tough, fibrous, or stringy foods are avoided.





 

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