Sanjiv Kumar Sinha, an orthopedician from Bihar, underwent a successful dual
liver-kidney transplant in Bangalore.
Dr. Sinha, 60, hails from Bhagalpur and had been suffering from chronic
diabetes for the past 25 years and this led to complications such as liver
cirrhosis and kidney damage.
Diabetic Kidney Disease
Diabetic nephropathy refers to kidney damage due very high levels of blood sugar levels in diabetics.
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The doctor underwent dialysis for a year in Delhi.
In November 2012, he experienced severe shortness of breath and was
referred to Global Hospitals in Chennai.
There, he was told that his liver got damaged and that he required a
liver transplant.
![Kidney Transplantation]( "Kidney Transplantation")
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
He had to wait for a 6-month long period during which time he also suffered kidney damage.
Finally, in April of this year, the family of a brain dead patient came forward to donate his organs to Dr. Sinha.
At BGS Hospital in Bangalore, a team of multi-organ transplant surgeons and anesthetists operated on their fellow-doctor, first transplanting liver and later the kidneys under the same anesthesia effect.
Dr Rajiv Lochan, a multi-organ transplant surgeon, explained as it was a case of multiorgan failure the procedure was much complex and risky.
Kaiser Raja, a hepatologist from BGS Global Hospital, said, "Since it was two transplants at once, there was a high risk of infection. We had to minimize the bleeding as well."
Dr. Sanjiv Kumar Sinha thanked his colleagues for their contribution to his regaining health at a thanksgiving gathering on the eve of Doctor's Day.
Source: Medindia
Kidney Transplantation
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.
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He had to wait for a 6-month long period during which time he also suffered kidney damage.
Finally, in April of this year, the family of a brain dead patient came forward to donate his organs to Dr. Sinha.
At BGS Hospital in Bangalore, a team of multi-organ transplant surgeons and anesthetists operated on their fellow-doctor, first transplanting liver and later the kidneys under the same anesthesia effect.
Dr Rajiv Lochan, a multi-organ transplant surgeon, explained as it was a case of multiorgan failure the procedure was much complex and risky.
Kaiser Raja, a hepatologist from BGS Global Hospital, said, "Since it was two transplants at once, there was a high risk of infection. We had to minimize the bleeding as well."
Dr. Sanjiv Kumar Sinha thanked his colleagues for their contribution to his regaining health at a thanksgiving gathering on the eve of Doctor's Day.
Source: Medindia
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