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New Delhi, Sep 17 (TIWN) Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here has performed an en bloc kidney transplant surgery on a five-year-old boy, who became the youngest organ recipient in India.
"The boy was suffering from chronic kidney failure for around one-and-a-half years and was continuously on haemodialysis. On every alternate day, the boy had to come for dialysis, which was not only costly but also not feasible for him at his age," Manjunath Maruti Pol, additional professor in the department of surgery, AIIMS, told the media agency. Talking to the media agency, Manjunath said the boy became the youngest organ recipient in India for en bloc kidney transplant. The child was suffering from chronic glomerulonephritis which caused kidney failure. The transplant was performed on August 25, he said. En bloc kidney transplant occurs when the two moieties (kidneys), from the same small pediatric donor, along with the aorta and inferior vena cava (IVC) for graft revascularization are transplanted into a single recipient, he explained.
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