HanoiA 9-year-old girl with end-stage kidney failure, requiring dialysis 3 times a week, returned to normal life after a kidney transplant at the National Children’s Hospital.
Pediatric patients in the city. HCM, weighs 22 kg, much shorter than his peers. A year ago, the child was diagnosed with end-stage chronic kidney failure, accompanied by high blood pressure and heart failure, requiring dialysis 3 times a week at the Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, National Children’s Hospital.
Hemodialysis can help children maintain life, but the quality of life is very low, with many life-threatening risks. Therefore, kidney transplant is considered the only method to help children survive.
After nearly a year of dialysis, the baby was healthy enough to receive a kidney transplant. 3 months ago, the child was infected with tapeworms. The doctors had to come up with the best treatment regimen to ensure the child’s safety after the transplant.
“In particular, before transplant, pediatric patients have their genetic test results analyzed and compared with clinical results, in order to rule out the causes of kidney failure due to gene mutations, helping to have a better prognosis for kidney transplant,” said Dr. Dr. Truong Thuy Linh, Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, shared.
On March 11, two surgeries to remove a kidney from a living donor and a kidney transplant were performed in parallel. After 5 hours, the surgery was successful, the right kidney immediately after being transplanted was pink, well perfused and began to produce urine.
MSc. Le Anh Dung, Head of the Department of Urology, said that this is the 62nd successful kidney transplant since 2004. Kidney transplant techniques have been performed proficiently here, but each case will have its own characteristics. different. In this case, the most difficult part of the transplant was when the kidney vein of the donor to the recipient was too long. Therefore, doctors must cut and reshape two branches of the renal vein before reconnecting and transplanting it to the child.
One week after the transplant, the patient’s condition was stable, urinating well, and he was discharged from the hospital on March 30.