Doctors at KIMS Hospitals remove 12 kg liver from 50-year-old woman

Published On 2022-12-10 11:52 GMT   |   Update On 2022-12-10 11:52 GMT

A liver weighing 12 kg is too preposterous a thought and hard to believe even by the best of medical brains. And if the patient is a woman with polycystic liver and kidney disease, then saving her life will present itself as a major challenge for surgeons.A miracle, by way of simultaneous liver and kidney transplantations, was performed by a team of reputed surgeons, including three...

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A liver weighing 12 kg is too preposterous a thought and hard to believe even by the best of medical brains. And if the patient is a woman with polycystic liver and kidney disease, then saving her life will present itself as a major challenge for surgeons.

A miracle, by way of simultaneous liver and kidney transplantations, was performed by a team of reputed surgeons, including three liver transplant surgeons and a kidney transplant surgeon, in the first week of November at KIMS Hospitals in Hyderabad.

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KIMS Doctors Remove 12 Kg Polycystic Liver From 50-Year-Old Woman


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