Bhubaneswar Doctors Perform Novel Blood-Mismatch Kidney Transplant

Bhubaneswar: In a medical breakthrough that is going to benefit kidney failure patients in Odisha and Eastern India, doctors at the city-based AMRI Hospitals have performed a complex ABO incompatible (mismatch blood group) kidney transplant successfully.

Blood group matching is essential between a donor and recipient in every case of kidney transplant. However, this novel method of ABO incompatible transplantation breaks the barrier, enabling a patient to receive a kidney from another person of any blood group.

The novel surgery was performed on a 23-year-old man from Dhenkanal. The patient, who has B+ blood group, was on dialysis after both of his kidneys failed. Though his mother with AB+ blood group was willing to donate one of her kidneys, it was not being possible due to mismatch in the blood groups.

However, the kidney transplant team of AMRI Hospitals comprising nephrologist Dr Sai Prasad Sahu and urologist and transplant surgeon Dr Manas Ranjan Pradhan took up the challenge and performed the surgery successfully.

Both the donor and recipient were discharged from the hospital in perfect health condition.

“This marks the beginning of a new era of kidney transplantation in Eastern India,” Group CEO, AMRI Hospitals Rupak Barua said.

“Now patients in Odisha won’t have to go to metro cities for these types of complex surgeries. This facility is available in only few centres of the country and AMRI Hospitals, Bhubaneswar is one among them,” said the hospital’s AVP Operations & Administration, Nilanjana Mukherjee.

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