According to a latest study in Ireland, kidneys of those donors who die from any heart-related illness can also be used for transplantation just like kidneys of those who die due to the death of their brain. It is stated that this will significantly reduce the long waiting time of the patients who are looking for a kidney donor.

The study has been published in the UK medical journal, the Lancet.

For the research, as many as 9,000 patients were interviewed and according to them, kidneys of those people who died of cardiac failure are as good as the kidneys of brain-dead donors.

Earlier, it was thought that the kidneys of heart patients were less strong and didn't last for more time.

Professor J. Andrew Bradley of the University of Cambridge and his team examined the records of around 9,134 kidney transplants during the period 2000 to 2007. They found that out of the whole lot, 845 transplants were done by using the kidneys of those patients who died of heart failure and the remainder of the transplants were done by using kidneys of brain-dead patients. The research results showed that success rate of both types of kidney transplants were same.

It is worth mentioning that in Ireland almost all kidney transplants are done by using kidneys from those people whose brain have become dead owing to some road accident or major head injury.