For the first time, doctors in the United States have been a bladder transplantation in a person worldwide worldwide.
The 41-year-old organ receiver received both a bladder and a kidney from an organ donor on 4 May during an eight-hour operation in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, said the University of California.
Dialysis not necessary
The surgeon Nima Nassiri, who was involved in the operation, said that the intervention had yielded positive results almost immediately. “The kidney immediately produced a large amount of urine and the patient’s kidney function immediately improved,” the urologist said. After that, a dialysis was not necessary.
Patient lived with a greatly reduced bladder
A few years ago the patient, a four -time family man, was removed a large part of his bladder due to cancer. Later he was removed from the last phases due to cancer and kidney diseases, and he was dependent on dialysis for seven years.
Less risky than other therapy methods
In the past, affected patients could have made an artificial bladder of part of the intestine or have a stoma bag made to collect the excretion. However, these techniques have recovered various risks, Nassiri said. The doctors now hope to bypass the full bladder transplantation in the future.
Source: Krone
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