RMLIMS doctors remove 5.5 kg tumour from kidney of 56-year-old patient

Lucknow: In a four-hour-long surgery at Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) in Lucknow, doctors successfully removed a 5.5 kg tumour from a patient's kidney.

According to reports, it is the second heaviest kidney tumour to be removed in India.

The patient is expected to be discharged next week.

According to an IANS report, the surgery, performed on June 27, took four hours and involved a complex procedure to extract the tumour that had spread to a major vein.

Madhuri had sought treatment from various hospitals without relief before her family brought her to RMLIMS.

Doctors at the Urology department recommended a CT scan, which disclosed a 30-cm tumour in her left kidney, news agency IANS reported.

Alok Srivastava, lead surgeon, RMLIMS, noted that the tumour had spread to a major vein, the inferior vena cava, responsible for transporting deoxygenated blood from the lower extremities and abdomen back to the heart.

"It is the second heaviest kidney tumour removed in India. The heaviest, weighing six kg, was removed at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi in 2019," Srivastava said.

The removal of a 5.4 kg kidney tumour from a 28-year-old woman at Sion Hospital in Mumbai in 2016 is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Madhuri is expected to be discharged from the hospital next week, marking a successful outcome to the complex surgery. 

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a 16-year-old girl from Najafgarh in Delhi underwent eight-hour-long surgery at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for the removal of a large tumour in her left thigh and prevented her left leg from amputation.