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Rare surgery performed in Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI - Urologists have successfully removed a man's infected kidney at Al Mafraq Hospital. The operation took one- and half-hour and the man, a Pakistani, is in stable condition and is expected to be discharged soon.
No kidney implantation was required as the other kidney was functioning well.
Speaking to Khaleej Times about the operation, Dr Issa Al Zubaidi, Consultant Urologist at the Hospital, said the patient had been complaining of having cysts full of parasites and toxic materials in his kidney, a matter that prompted immediate surgery through nephrectomy, removal of the kidney.
The cystitis increased the weight of the kidney to 1.7Kg, said Dr Zubaidi.
The increase was huge as the normal weight of human kidney ranges from 400g to 500g, he said.
If left untreated, the toxic materials would have adverse reaction in the body resulting in coma or even death, said Dr Zubaidi. On the cause of the infection, Dr Zubaidi said the disease is a zoonotic disease in which infection transmit from animals to human beings.
"It has been proved that this type of disease transmits from dogs to humans. It is a rare disease that is mostly found among children as they like playing with pets," said Dr Zubaidi.
It usually transmits orally from the mouth and move towards vital organs, especially kidney and liver, creating hydatidosis or accumulation of cysts and toxic materials in these parts of the body, he said.
"We mainly depend on hi-tech lithotripsy equipment and endoscopy and do not resort to surgeries unless the case is complicated and requires operation," he said.
Dr Zubaidi advised that kidney patient should drink lots of water and take enough fluids to avoid creation of cysts.
As cysts are likely to recur, kidney patients should regularly visit the physician and follow his/her instructions as it is easy to remove cysts in early stages, he said.
Dr Zubaidi said the department receives around 800 kidney patients per month, 40 per cent of who suffer from accumulation of cysts and parasites.
The department, meanwhile, also carried out another complicated surgery on a middle aged woman to reconstruct her ureter.
During the critical surgery, doctors used part of the patient's intestine to relief the woman from the chronic ureteric stricture from which she suffered.
According to Dr Zubaidi, ureter stricture, is considered a rare case that people might develop if they were suffering from certain diseases such as bilharzia or tuberculosis.
It might also be the result of congenital deformities in the ureter, he said.
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