The urologists and organ transplant team at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Tuesday announced that they have successfully performed the institute’s first-ever robotic kidney transplant on a 33-year-old man, who was suffering from end-stage kidney disease due to rejection from an earlier living-related kidney transplant.
The patient, hailing from Nalgonda, had undergone a living-related kidney transplant in 2017 but was struggling due to chronic rejection. This time around, he received a cadaveric kidney from brain dead individual, making the surgery particularly complex due to previous surgery.