Coimbatore: Tumour weighing 11.8 kg removed from man

Coimbatore: A giant size tumour weighing 11.8 kg in all was removed from the kidneys of a 46-year-old man following a complicated and a challenging procedure at a city hospital.

According to Dr Devdas Madhavan, consultant urologist and transplant surgeon, Vinod (name changed), a native of Nagerkoil who was working in Kuwait, was undergoing dialysis following failure of his kidneys. The kidneys had to be removed on account of the huge size of the cyst and unbearable weight. Both the cysts together weighed 11.8 kgs.

The surgery was performed by a team comprising an urologist, a nephrologist and an anaesthetist. Dr Devdas Madhavan, Dr. Vivek Pathak, nephrologist and anaesthetists Dr N. Selvarajan and Dr Shantini.

“The kidneys develop cysts due to a hereditary disorder and the kidney is replaced by multiple cysts or bubbles. They gradually enlarge and replace the entire kidney, leading to kidney failure and this is diagnosed only later in life. The cysts have been operated and Vinod will undergo a kidney transplant after about two months”, he said. Incidentally his mother underwent a similar surgical procedure 10 years ago for removal of both kidneys followed by a transplant.