The AIIMS Bhubaneswar has 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 a good urine output and normal blood creating levels. The kidney donor underwent alaparoscopic donor nephrectomy and was discharged on post-operative third day. The recipient has also been discharged.
AIIMS Bhubaneswar Executive Director Prof Ashutosh Biswas said that with increasing diabetes, hypertension and other kidney diseases, there is a huge burden of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in the society and an urgent need for organ transplantation services in eastern India. The financial burden of transplantation services in private hospitals runs into tens of lakhs. Starting affordable organ transplantation services in the form of kidney transplantation would bring a big relief to the common people of Odisha and neighboring States.
Dr Biswas further informed that the AIIMS Bhubaneswar is working towards developing liver and bone marrow transplantation services in the near future.
The nephrology team was headed by Dr Sandip Panda and the surgical team was headed by Head of Urology Dr Prasant Nayak.