A patient tells the nurse that chronic kidney disease is "in his family" and his father died within a few months after having a kidney transplant in the late 1940s.What information should the nurse provide?

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The patient's concern is about the success of the transplant and the nurse should address this by informing the patient that medications to prevent problems associated with organ transplantation are now widely available. Option A is not appropriate as it assumes the patient is considering kidney transplantation when there is no evidence of this. Option B is also not appropriate as heart and lung transplants are not relevant to the patient's concern about kidney disease. Option C is not appropriate as the patient's concern is not about technical failures, but rather about the overall success of kidney transplants.

A Patient Tells the Nurse That Chronic Kidney Disease Is