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According to the hospital, with the available data, this was the first time in India that an operation was successfully performed on a liver that weighed 12 kg.
For the first time in India, doctors at KIMS Hospital in Hyderabad removed a liver weighing 12 kg and performed liver and kidney transplant on a 50-year-old woman.
According to the hospital, with the available data, this was the first time in India that an operation was successfully performed on a liver that weighed 12 kg.
Though the surgery was performed in the first week of November, the hospital disclosed the procedure on Thursday,......
....8 December, after concluding that the procedure was successful and evaluating the patient’s condition.
The liver of 50-year-old Usha Agarwal from Siliguri in West Bengal was so gigantic that it occupied her entire abdomen, displacing the intestines.
Under normal and healthy circumstances, a liver weighs a maximum of 1.5 kg and occupies the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.
According to the hospital, it was difficult for Agarwal to walk with such a heavy liver, collection of water (Ascites) in the belly, and hernia.
“She started feeling heaviness in 2019, which was when she was advised transplantation,” said Dr Ravichand Siddachari, consultant and chief of Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery, in a statement.
“Polycystic liver and kidney disease is a hereditary condition in which cysts (fluid-filled cavities) are formed in kidneys and liver due to mutations in the genes,” he explained.