 Early Times Report
Jammu, May 4: Consultant - Transplant Surgery from Fortis Hospital, Mohali Dr Sunil Kumar and others said that presently 17 in every 100 people suffer from some form of kidney disease and Kidney Transplant is the best treatment for patient with suffering Chronic Kindey Disease (CKD).
Addressing media persons, a team of doctors comprising Prof (Dr) Mukut Minz (Director - Transplant Surgery) and Dr Sunil Kumar (Consultant - Transplant Surgery) said the ABO Incompatible Transplant, a new technique to transplant kidney from different blood groups, has also been successfully performed at the hospital.
Prof (Dr) Mukut Minz explained that kidney transplant is the treatment of choice in chronic kidney disease. "The life of a person undergoes a sea-change once he or she undergoes kidney transplant. Imagine the relief of somebody going to hospital for dialysis three times a week after getting a kidney transplant. Patients on dialysis are prone to get multiple infections like hepatitis B and C and hence one should get a kidney transplant as early as possible," said Prof (Dr) Minz.
Dr Sunil Kumar, who has been working with Prof Minz for 10 years, said that kidney transplant is a procedure where a healthy kidney is transplanted from one person, to the affected person's body. This new kidney will perform the functions of both the failed kidneys.
Potential donors are carefully evaluated to ensure that the donor is fit for surgery and has no disease which brings undue risk or likelihood of a poor outcome for either the donor or recipient.
Speaking about the new ABO Incompatible technique, Dr Kumar said, "The major barrier to organ transplantation between genetically non-identical patients lay in the recipient and the immune system, which would treat a transplanted kidney as a non-self and reject it. Thus, having medications to suppress the immune system is essential. With advances in the field of immunology and transplant medicine, new and effective drugs are now available with which one can expect excellent results of kidney transplant. If carefully selected for transplant, the patients usually do well and can go home within one week of surgery."
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