Norvic Int’l Hospital succeeds in ABO-incompatible renal transplant

KATHMANDU: Doctors at Norvic International Hospital based in Thapathali, Kathmandu have achieved success in ABO-incompatible renal transplant, which is considered very complicated and rare. The hospital started the kidney transplant in January this year. ABO-incompatible renal transplant is a complex method of transplanting a kidney received from a person to a person with a different blood group. Generally, in kidney transplantation, only a person with the same blood group can donate a kidney to a person with kidney failure, and only such kidneys are transplanted. However, doctors at Norvic International Hospital successfully completed the ABO-incompatible renal transplant. A team of doctors including Chief Consultant Nephrologist Dr Rajendra Kumar Agrawal, Consultant Nephrologist and renal transplant physician Dr Sumit Acharya and kidney transplant surgeon Dr Rakesh Verma successfully performed the ABO-incompatible renal transplant at Norvic. It has been learnt that the Thapathali-based international hospital has successfully conducted seven kidney transplants. According to Dr Acharya, the sixth transplant was very complicated and rare. He said, "A special medical treatment method was adopted to reduce the level of antibodies in the patient's blood before and after the kidney transplant and to reduce the risk of antibodies rejecting the donor's kidney. In this treatment, antibodies are removed from the blood (plasmapheresis). As this is a complicated method compared to a normal kidney transplant, its fee is somewhat expensive." A 72-year-old male patient with blood group 'O' undergoing treatment at Norvic received a kidney from a 65-year-old female with blood group 'A'. Such transplants are very rare in Nepal. "Norvic's team has succeeded in this risky work," Dr Acharya said and added, "We discharged the person who underwent a kidney transplant after being treated with complex methods within six days. His health condition is normal now." According to Nephrologist and renal transplant physician Dr Acharya, the condition of other patients who underwent kidney transplants at Norvic is also normal. "We have moved forward by adding a new dimension to kidney transplants with a  cent per cent success rate." He said and added, "The compulsion to go abroad for such high-risk transplants has now come to an end." READ ALSO: 

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