Docs remove `largest' kidney from 45 yr-old

1. Docs remove `largest'
kidney from 45-yr-old

2. Contd..
Doctors at a city private hospital have removed from the body of a 45year-
old a kidney weighing 2.75kg, equal to the weight of a newborn child. The
patient suffered from ADPKD--autosomal dominant polycystic kidney
disease--a congenital disorder. It caused his kidneys to swell and develop
multiple cysts filled with fluid. A normal kidney weighs only 130 grams.
“The dimensions of this huge kidney are 33 X 20 X 20 cubic cm. It's the
largest one in the world removed till date,“ claimed Dr Manu Gupta,
consultant urological surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital who performed the
procedure. He said the Guinness World Records reports a kidney weighing
2.15kg as the world's largest. That organ was removed in Dhule,
Maharashtra, in 2011.
Dr Gupta said the patient was under treatment at SGRH for nearly a year.

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“Last month, he presented with chronic renal failure --severe pain in abdomen,
blood in urine and high grade fever. His condition was deteriorating because of
sepsis in kidneys. He was losing a lot of blood. That's why we decided to remove
both the kidneys,“ the doctor said.
Gupta said the procedure was quite challenging. “This kidney weighed 2.75kg
which is 20 times more than normal and was stuck to the surrounding intestines. It
took us three hours of difficult dissection to remove the kidney . The second kidney
weighing 2.5kg was also re moved a week later. The patient's body was bearing an
extra weight of about five kilograms,“ Dr Gupta said.
According to Dr Vinant Bhargav, consultant nephrologist at the hospital, the patient
is currently on dialysis and waiting to undergo kidney transplant. “ADPKD is one of
the commonest inherited disorders with approximately 12.5 million cases
worldwide,“ he said. He added that pre-transplant nephrectomies (removal of
kidneys) is occasionally necessary in such situations.