By Express News Service
KOCHI: Five sufferers who just lately recovered from COVID-19 underwent profitable kidney transplantation at a non-public hospital in Kochi. All the sufferers are doing nicely after the surgical procedures, a launch from the VPS Lakeshore Hospital right here stated.
“Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the state, organ transplantation surgeries were postponed because of the high risks involved. Performing it in patients who just recovered from the viral infection was even rarer. Considering the life-threatening situation of patients, after a thorough and complete evaluation, Lakeshore Hospital went ahead and successfully performed kidney transplantation in the patients who recently recovered from COVID-19,” the discharge stated.
There was an virtually full lack of knowledge concerning the protection 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 medicines would possibly flare up the illness. Thus, the surgical procedures had been carried out after ready for a minimal interval of 12 weeks after their restoration from COVID-19.
“All the patients tested negative for the virus thrice by RT PCR and all the relevant investigations were done to ensure that they were completely fit and we also transplanted kidneys from four donors who had recent COVID-19 infection and recovered from it after a minimum period of four weeks,” stated Dr Abi Abraham, director of nephrology, VPS Lakeshore Hospital.
In addition to Dr Abi Abraham, different medical doctors who had been a part of the transplant crew 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.
