Hospital team of doctors feels a great sense of fulfillment after renewing a lease on life of a young man from Pattukkottai
A successful kidney transplant performed on a 21 year old young man who had to fare many adverse challenges before the transplant procedure
Chennai, 20 January 2024) Teath of doctors from GEM Hospital and Research Centre. Chennai has successfally perfarmed a series of complicated surgeries and a trical Money transplant procedure on a 21 yчат. ald young esan frem Patrokkottal In Tamilnadu wo had initially reported to the hospital of kidney failure
Aravind (name changed) had his own struggles against not one ist many le threatening diseases at this very young age. The patient was diagnosed with a linawn case of chrome kidney disease and referred for kidney transplantation, developvil andommen pais found to have Acote Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Abscess, Sepsis which lead to Septic shock requiring ventilatory support, drug resistant intra abdominal lymph node Tuberculosis (T), and affected by Güillain Harre syndrome a debilitating neuraingicai disease Aise, he haa pre transplant immunological challenges followed by a sturmy post operative period,
The patient was admitted in GEM Hospital Chennai on 6 April and docharged on 18 December 23 after a successful surgery. Now, a month stable and Aravind is feeling good the transplant, the indory
Dr. P. Senthilnathan, Surgical Gastroenterologist & Director, GEM Hospital said “Initially, the patient had suffered fram severe abdominal pain and needed a stan, which showed the presence of many lymph nade enlargementa in stomach an infecties is pancreas (Pancreatic abscest). We did a surgery to drain the abscess and removeil dead tissue from the pancreas. Later, biopsy repurts confirmed the lymph node enlargements in his stomach are nothing but the presence of dring resistant intra abfomtna lymph node Tuberculosis (TB)”
“Aravind was in ICU for a month. After 2 months of medication and when we were about to plan for the transplant, we found a difference in his waliing as it was wobbly and abnormal. A complete Neurological examination revealed the accurrеnсе оf Gолаїв-Васте syndrome (GBS) which is a debilttaling neurological disease. It is a rare condition in which a person’s immune system attacks the peripheral nerves. Si a spacial plasma exchange
treatment called Plasmapheresis was carried out as many times as required. It eventually helped him to quickly stop GBS from spreading to other parts of the body which may have lead to paralysis”, Dr. Senthilnathan further added.
Dr. K. Balamukunthan, Nephrologist, GEM Hospital said, “We regularly monitored Aravind’s vitals for two more months and finally decided to do this high risk kidney transplant. Thankfully, donor kidney was not an issue as the patient’s mother came forward to donate her kidney to her son. The procedure was carried out as planned and the transplanted kidney started responding. Few days later, a post surgery complication had occurred and was attended at the right time. An emergency surgery was done without any delay to fix the blood leakage in the transplanted area. Currently his kidney is secure and he is coping up well to the treatment”.
Elaborating on the post transplant emergency surgery which was performed on Michaung cyclone day (4 Dec 2023), Dr. Senthilnathan said, “The weather condition had definitely added more pressure on the team as most of our surgeons were stuck at home. I took the responsibility and stepped out of the house with my car. But, I had to stop the car midway as the roads were inconvenient for driving. I waded through the fast flowing knee deep waters for further 4 kms to reach the hospital and attended the surgery which gave us a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment even in adverse conditions”.
Speaking about the surgery Dr. S. Asokan, CEO and Director, GEM Hospital Chennai mentioned that, “It is clearly evident in this case as early screening and detection of disease, timely and accurate surgery eliminates the risk. GEM hospital has been a center of excellence for doing such complex surgeries with laparoscopic and robotic techniques for decades”.
Dr. C. Palanivelu, Chairman, GEM Hospitals, who is a visionary and pioneer Laparoscopic and Robotic surgeon, lauded the team (Dr. P.Senthilnathan – Surgical Gastroenterologist, Dr. K. Balamukunthan Nephrologist, Dr.Vaanmathi Anesthesiologist, and Dr.Yuvaraj Urologist) for their commendable effort and mentioned that GEM Hospital has always strived to raise the standards of medicine with advanced technology and will continue to do so.