The Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Hyderabad claimed that it has carried out a complex transplantation surgery involving pancreas and kidney on a young diabetic patient with kidney failure. The procedure, which took 23 hours, was performed by a team led by Dr Madhusudan, HoD, surgical gastroenterology, urologist Ramakrishna Prasad, nephrologist Manisha and anesthetist Deepraj Singh. This was a first of its kind for government hospitals in India.
‘The timely intervention by a team of doctors at the government hospital in Hyderabad has helped to save the life of a man hailing from a poor family.’
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"Pancreas transplantation is very much complex and serious surgery which requires multiple blood vessels anastomosis," it said.The patient, 26 year old Ganesh a resident of Nalgonda district of Telangana who hails from a poor family, suffered from juvenile diabetes (Type 2 diabetes) and multiple complications including chronic kidney failure and bilateral retinopathy. He was on dialysis for last two years.
"He needed a pancreas transplantation as it had stopped producing insulin, leading to high blood sugar level. Before the surgery, the patient's blood sugar was at a high 600 mg/dl. He needed 60 units of insulin every day to survive," said Dr Ch Madhusudhan, adding that the Ganesh developed bilateral kidney failure since 8 years and was on regular dialysis at OGH since then.
The organs were harvested from a 23-year-old person who was declared brain-dead after he was severely injured in a road accident in Karnataka.
The patient is recuperating well. Blood sugars levels are near normal without insulin and kidney function is improving steadily.
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Telangana Health Minister C Laxma Reddy congratulated the Osmania General Hospital on this landmark achievement.
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Source-Medindia