Chennai: In a rarest of rare cases, which might have not been reported in India, a paitent walked home from hospital with five kidneys after the successful third kidney transplant due to the failure of earlier two transplants.
Third kidney transplant done by Dr S Saravanan using an unconventional transperitoneal approach at the Madras Medical Mission (MMM) hospital in the city.
The patient’s chronic kidney disease had seen him go through two kidney transplants earlier at a different hospital.
The patient now has a total of five kidneys in his body and is doing well with the newly placed kidney.
This approach is not done commonly across the world and no paper on this approach has been published in India.
A MMM release said the 41-year-old-patient, with hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), landed at the hospital for kidney transplant. He decided this based on the successful transplant performed on his sister earlier by Dr Saravanan.