AIIMS Bhubaneswar Conducts Its First Successful Kidney Transplant

Bhubaneswar: AIIMS Bhubaneswar has added another feather to the successful journey of its first decade as it successfully conducted its first case of Live-Related Kidney Transplantation on August 30, 2022.

The donor-recipient duo of father-son is doing fine, and the transplanted kidney is functioning well with good urine output and normal blood creatinine levels. The kidney donor underwent a laparoscopic donor nephrectomy and was discharged on the postoperative third day. The recipient has also been discharged.

Congratulating the team behind the effort AIIMS Bhubaneswar Executive Director Prof (Dr) Ashutosh Biswas said that with increasing numbers of Diabetes, Hypertension, and other kidney diseases, there is a huge burden of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in society and a large unmet need for organ transplantation services in Eastern India.

The financial burden of transplantation services in private hospitals runs into tens of lakhs and starting affordable organ transplantation services in the form of kidney transplantation will bring big relief to the common populace of Odisha and neighboring states, added Dr. Biswas.

Dr. Biswas further stressed that AIIMS Bhubaneswar is working towards developing Liver and Bone Marrow Transplantation services in the near future.

AIIMS Bhubaneswar President Prof (Dr) Subrat Acharya has also congratulated the team for starting Kidney transplantation in the national institute. Medical Superintendent Dr. S N Mohanty congratulated the team and wished many more successful transplantations at AIIMS Bhubaneswar.

The Nephrology team was headed by Dr. Sandip Panda and the surgical team was headed by Head of Urology Dr. Prasant Nayak. Dr. Manoj Das, Dr. Swarnendu Mandal and Dr. Sambit Tripathy were also part of the team performing the first Kidney transplantation at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. In an example of inter-Institutional collaboration, PGIMER Chandigarh had deputed Prof Deepesh

Benjamin Kenwar from the Department of Renal Transplantation to mentor the starting of the kidney transplantation services at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The Anesthesia team headed by Prof. Satyajeet Mishra was comprised of Dr. Bhaskar Rao and Dr. Saumya Sarkar. The team was supported ably by the services of the Transplant Coordinator Niranjan Parmanik and the OT and the Transplant ICU staffs.

The Director also acknowledged the efforts of the administrative team of AIIMS Bhubaneswar in supporting and facilitating such noble initiative. A lot of patients have registered for live-related kidney transplantation at AIIMS Bhubaneswar and ED Dr. Ashutosh Biswas has wished the team all success for the future.

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