KOCHI: 5 sufferers who just lately recovered from COVID-19 underwent profitable kidney transplantation at a personal hospital in Kochi. All of the sufferers are doing effectively after the surgical procedures, a launch from the VPS Lakeshore Hospital right here stated.
“As a result of outbreak of COVID-19 within the state, organ transplantation surgical procedures have been postponed due to the excessive dangers concerned. Performing it in sufferers who simply recovered from the viral an infection was even rarer. Contemplating the life-threatening state of affairs of sufferers, after an intensive and full analysis, Lakeshore Hospital went forward and efficiently carried out kidney transplantation within the sufferers who just lately recovered from COVID-19,” the discharge stated.
There was an virtually full lack of knowledge concerning the security of transplantation in sufferers who had just lately recovered from COVID-19. It was additionally not clear how lengthy the coronavirus will survive within the physique after the affected person recovers from the sickness and whether or not immunosuppressive drugs would possibly flare up the illness. Thus, the surgical procedures have been carried out after ready for a minimal interval of 12 weeks after their restoration from COVID-19.
“All of the sufferers examined damaging for the virus thrice by RT PCR and all of the related investigations have been finished to make sure that they have been fully match and we additionally transplanted kidneys from 4 donors who had latest COVID-19 an infection and recovered from it after a minimal interval of 4 weeks,” stated Dr Abi Abraham, director of nephrology, VPS Lakeshore Hospital.
Along with Dr Abi Abraham, different medical doctors who have been a part of the transplant group included Dr Jithin. S. Kumar, Dr Karthik Ganesh, Dr Sunitha Simon from Nephrology and Dr George P Abraham, Chief Renal Transplant Surgeon and Dr Datson George from Urology.
