Belagavi doctors perform rare kidney transplant

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Neeta Deshpande, Medical Director of CentraCare Super-Speciality Hospital, and different   doctors addressing reporters successful  Belagavi connected  Saturday.

Neeta Deshpande, Medical Director of CentraCare Super-Speciality Hospital, and different doctors addressing reporters successful Belagavi connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Doctors astatine the CentraCare Super-Speciality Hospital successful Belagavi person performed a uncommon process to prevention the beingness of a diligent suffering from a kidney ailment.

The squad successfully performed the first-ever ABO-Incompatible Kidney transplant which is simply a caller milestone successful the region, the infirmary said.

Neeta Deshpande, Medical Director, told reporters present connected Saturday that the diligent had got a caller lease of beingness with the transplant. Both the donor and recipient are unchangeable and doing well, she said. They expressed heartfelt gratitude to the infirmary squad for the attraction and support.

The patient, who underwent Kidney Transplant, is simply a 47-year-old antheral (B+ve Blood group) from Hukkeri Taluka. He was suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease for 12 years and was connected dialysis for the past 4 years. His woman (A+ve Blood Group) wished to donate her kidney, but humor radical mismatch had earlier made transplant difficult.

With the availability of expertise, the ABO-incompatible transplant was successfully performed.

Anjaney Yadur, transplant nephrologist, explained that earlier the transplant, peculiar attraction was carried retired to trim antibodies utilizing precocious techniques similar plasmapheresis. The country was carried retired nether adjacent supervision of the transplant and captious attraction team. The transplanted kidney started functioning instantly with capable urine output, which is simply a affirmative motion of success.

He said that lifelong follow-up and medicine are indispensable for bully prime of life.

The surgery, which lasted for implicit 4 hours, was performed by a squad of doctors- Avinash Odugoudar, pb transplant surgeon, Bhuvanesh Aradhya, Nazeer Mulla and Sunil S, nether the mentorship of Ajay Sharma. Anesthesia enactment was provided by Srivatsa and Seemin. The post-transplant attraction was managed by Anjaney Yadur, intensivist Narendra Patil, nephrologist Deepak, and a dedicated nursing team.

Dr. Deshpande said that the transplant programme was started successful relation with ‘Urograft’ co-founded by Avinash Odugoudar and Bhuvanesh Aradhya. She announced that, successful representation of her father, K.H. Belgaumkar, the CSR funds from the foundation, on with enactment from philanthropists, volition beryllium pooled successful to assistance marque kidney attraction much affordable for needy patients.

Dr. Odugoudar highlighted that astir 2 lakh patients were connected dialysis successful India, portion lone astir 10,000 kidney transplants were performed each year. There was a ample spread betwixt request and availability of donated organs. Earlier kidney transplants required matching humor groups, but with modern aesculapian advances, transplants were present safely performed adjacent erstwhile humor groups did not match. He appealed to citizens to pledge their organs and assistance prevention lives.

Published - January 31, 2026 06:07 p.m. IST

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