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VISAKHAPATNAM: In a outstanding feat in medical historical past, the KIMS, Visakhapatnam has carried out a double organ transplant to avoid wasting a affected person. The specialists at KIMS not solely advisable two organ transplants on the identical individual in fast succession, but in addition truly accomplished the process efficiently.
A 50-year-old businessman, an Amalapuram native, approached KIMS after being recognized with liver most cancers, Cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis C Virus, and continual Kidney illness.
Dr. Chalapathi Rao Achanta, gastroenterologist and nephrologist Dr. R. Okay. Mahesh of KIMS icon hospital defined the case: “The affected person’s liver was badly broken attributable to liver most cancers, Liver Cirrhosis attributable to hepatitis’c an infection, and he additionally had kidney failure which didn’t enhance with medical administration.”
The medical specialists on the hospital decided {that a} double organ transplant was the one strategy to save the affected person. Discovering organs, alternatively, was one other problem.
“Together with his life in peril, we wanted to discover a donor as quickly as doable. Fortunately, we had been capable of get hold of a kidney and a liver from a brain-dead donor in Srikakulam and so they had been transplanted on the identical day. It was windfall that we had been capable of finding an organ donor for the surgical procedures, which had been his solely probability of survival. Performing it on the most applicable time saved the affected person’s life,” the physician defined.
This uncommon process was carried out on April 22, 2023 at Visakhapatnam’s KIMS Icon Hospital. The skilled workforce that carried out these surgical procedures included liver transplant surgeons Dr. Ravichand Siddachari and Dr. Sachin Daga, Dr. Muralidar Nambada, Dr. Ravi Chandra Reddy, kidney transplant surgeons Dr. Umamaheswara Rao and Dr. Murali Krishna Padhyla, gastroenterologist Dr. A. Chalapathi Rao Achanta, and nephrologist Dr. R.Okay. Mahesh.
“Following the profitable surgical procedures, the affected person recovered shortly and went residence 10 days later. His liver and kidney at the moment are functioning usually,” the physician mentioned.
Dr. Satish Kumar Pethakamsetty, Managing Director of KIMS Icon Hospital, mentioned that organ transplant surgical procedures had been usually carried out on the hospital because of the facility’s state-of-the-art expertise and devoted workforce. He famous that the workforce had carried out 16 liver transplants and roughly 120 kidney transplants so far, saving the lives of many hospital sufferers.Moreover, conducting a double organ transplant twice on this facility has offered immense satisfaction to the workforce.
“We must always respect the imaginative and prescient and efforts of the Andhra Pradesh Jeevandan committee in elevating consciousness about organ donation and our state’s profitable organ transplantation programme,” he mentioned.
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