The clinic designed or adolescents and young adults with kidney problems and is aimed at easing the huge transition between child and adult services.
abc.net.au/news/qld-kidney-clinic-young-people-kidney-transplant/102155798Natalie Nicholls was in her early 20s when a doctor delivered a double blow – she would need a kidney transplant later in life and falling pregnant would become riskier the longer she waited to have children.
Persistent scores of less than 60 suggest chronic kidney disease and below 15 represents kidney failure. But for the past six months, the 29-year-old has been attending a pilot clinic designed for adolescents and young adults with kidney problems in the Metro North Hospital and Health Service district, aimed at easing the huge transition between child and adult services.
"In the first three years of transition from paediatric to adult services, we see very high rates of loss of their transplanted kidney. It's been shown if your service has a transplant-focused young adult clinic, then the rates of graft loss due to non-adherence to medications reduce significantly. "We did get the echo from the young adult patients that additional support, additional contact, additional opportunities to ask questions beyond the baseline medical care that they're already receiving is what they needed."Bryce Drew, who also attends the clinic, received a donated kidney from his dad, Shane, in July 2020, after his kidney function dropped to 13.
Mr Drew, whose own kidneys were scarred because of urinary reflux as a toddler, works as a construction site manager and was married for less than a year before the kidney transplant.Bryce Drew says he enjoys attending the clinic for young people.
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