After the third renal transplant surgery, a 41-year-old resident of Chennai now has five kidneys' in his body and is doing well. The patient, who underwent a third renal transplant surgery at the Madras Mission Hospital, earlier had two transplanted kidneys in his body along with his original two kidneys. This is one of the rarest of procedures conducted on a patient, which is not common even globally. The 41-year-old patient had hypertension and chronic kidney disorder (CKD) and had two earlier failed renal transplant surgeries owing to uncontrolled hypertension. The transperitoneal approach (through the gut), a rare surgery, saved the day for my patient.

Source: dna August 11, 2021 13:40 UTC