Surgeons have removed a kidney weighing 7.4 kilograms (16.3 pounds) -- the equivalent size of two newborn babies -- from a patient in India. It is thought to be the heaviest kidney ever removed in the country -- and the third heaviest worldwide.
It is thought to be the heaviest kidney ever removed in the country -- and the third heaviest worldwide.The patient, a 56-year-old male from the Indian capital New Delhi, suffers from autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease . A genetic condition, it causes cysts to develop in the kidneys.
"The patient was suffering from kidney failure, flank pain infections that were not responding to medication because the antibiotics weren't able to penetrate the cysts. "The cysts were at risk of haemorrhaging, which can lead to uncontrolled bleeding. He was having trouble breathing because of the size of the kidneys pressing into other organs," said Kathuria.
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