- Youth had a football size kidney, doctors get success for first time in MP
Chronicle Reporter, Bhopal
A rare surgery to remove both the kidneys of a 30-year-old young man was done in the capital’s Bansal Hospital recently. This is probably the first such operation in Madhya Pradesh. Urologist and kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Santosh Agarwal, who did the surgery, said that the young man was suffering from a disease called ADPKD.
In this disease, large cysts are formed in both the kidneys and it slowly damages the kidney. The young man’s kidney was quite large, almost the size of a football. In this, the right kidney was 30 cm and the left kidney was 26 cm in size. The young man was already on dialysis due to kidney failure and his work up was going on for kidney transplant. But in the meantime, due to bleeding in both the kidney cysts, there was severe stomach pain and an operation had to be done to remove both the kidneys.
Operation done in three hours
The operation took about three hours and he was discharged after three days and soon his kidney will be transplanted. In this operation, anaesthetist Dr Harbhajan Singh Saini, nephrologist Dr Vidyanand Tripathi said that ADPKD is a genetic disease and can be passed from parents to children. If anyone in the family has ADPKD disease, then sonography of other family members should be done. Kidney failure can be delayed by getting timely treatment.
