The World’s Largest Kidney Weighing 2.75kg Removed

Surgeons have removed the world’s largest kidney weighing 2.75 kg from a 45-year-old patient at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India.
The World’s Largest Kidney Weighing 2.75kg Removed
It took three hours of difficult dissection to remove the kidney
The man, whose name is not disclosed, was admitted to hospital suffering from severe pain in the abdomen, blood in urine and high fever. Due to severe infection in the kidneys and excessive blood loss, the man’s condition was deteriorating with every passing day. After several tests the man was diagnosed with utosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
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The World’s Largest Kidney Weighing 2.75kg Removed
A scan showing the kidneys weighing 2.75 and 2.5 kgs at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Speaking about the operation Dr Manu Gupta, consultant, urological surgeon, said: “It took us three hours of difficult dissection to remove the kidney that weighed 2.75 kg—20 times more than normal—and was stuck to the surrounding intestines. The second one, weighing 2.5 kg, was also removed a week later. Altogether, the patient’s body was bearing an extra weight of over 5 kg.”
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The World’s Largest Kidney Weighing 2.75kg Removed
t took us three hours of difficult dissection to remove the kidney that weighed 2.75 kg
The patient has been recently put on dialysis, he is now recovering and awaiting kidney transplant. ADPKD is an inherited genetic systemic disease with 12.5 million cases worldwide. The 2.75 kg kidney smashed the previous record of 2.15 kg, which was removed in Dhule, India, in 2011, according to Guinness World Records. Normal kidneys weigh approximately 130 grams.
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