Doctors at BLK-Max Super speciality Hospital saved the life of a 12-year-old Iraqi child born with congenital defect that caused both his kidneys and ureters to expand abnormally. This was carried out through minimally invasive robotic surgery.
The child’s ureter were dilated to 5 cm and elongated to almost 75 cm. Owing to travel restrictions during the pandemic, the child’s medical condition worsened and was in need of an urgent surgery.
Doctors managed to save his right kidney and shortened the length and re-constructed the ureter and removed the non-functional left kidney.
Dr Yajvender Pratap Singh Rana, Senior Consultant, Urology and Renal Transplantation, BLK Max Super Speciality Hospital said, “He underwent robotic surgery for left Nephro Ureterectomy. His ureters were much dilated and almost half of abdomen was filled dilated and enlarged coiled ureters.
This coiling led to backflow of urine from the bladder to the kidneys, causing their enlargement.”
