Hello and welcome to the details of US surgeons achieve medical milestone with first-ever bladder transplant, offering hope to patients with severe disorders and now with the details
Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Surgeons at a hospital in Los Angeles, California have successfully performed the world’s first human bladder transplant, hospital officials said. — Istock.com pic via AFP-Relaxnews
WASHINGTON, May 20 — Surgeons at a hospital in Los Angeles, California have successfully performed the world’s first human bladder transplant, hospital officials said.
The surgery, performed May 4 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre, is a promising development for other patients suffering from serious bladder disorders.
The recipient of the innovative procedure was Oscar Larrainzar, 41, a father of four who had a large portion of his bladder removed due to cancer several years ago, the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a statement Sunday.
Larrainzar later had both of his kidneys removed due to cancer and end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for seven years.
He received both a bladder and a kidney from an organ donor and had them successfully transplanted in an eight-hour operation.
“The surgeons first transplanted the kidney, followed by the bladder; they then connected the kidney to the new bladder using the technique they had pioneered,” the UCLA statement said.
Dr. Nima Nassiri, one of the surgeons involved in the historic transplant, said the procedure yielded positive results almost instantaneously.
“The kidney immediately made a large volume of urine, and the patient’s kidney function improved immediately,” Nassiri said.
“There was no need for any dialysis after surgery, and the urine drained properly into the new bladder.”
Nassiri and fellow surgeon Inderbir Gill said full bladder transplants had not been performed previously due to the complex vascular structure of the pelvis, making it a technically difficult procedure.
“This first attempt at bladder transplantation has been over four years in the making,” Nassiri said.
Previously, patients in need of bladder reconstruction could have one artificially created using a part of the intestines or have a stoma bag inserted to collect urine.
Those techniques had several short-term and long-term risks that doctors hope will be circumvented with the full bladder transplant, Nassiri said. — AFP
These were the details of the news US surgeons achieve medical milestone with first-ever bladder transplant, offering hope to patients with severe disorders for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
