PANAJI
Manipal Hospital Goa has successfully undertaken the first kidney transplant and the donor surgery was done by laparoscopy for the very first time in Goa. The surgical team was led by Dr Deepak Dubey an alumnus of Goa Medical College and the chairperson of urology services across the Manipal Group. Dr Dubey mentored the surgical team consisting of urologist Dr Madhav Sanzgiri, laparoscopic surgeon Dr Jagannath Kulkarni and cardiovascular surgeon Dr Rakesh Deshmane. The complex transplant anesthesia was managed by Dr Divya Mahaldar, Dr Savita Sanzgiri and Dr Yogesh Gawde along with Dr Dalia Bhandare.
This spousal transplant was preoperatively worked up and managed post-procedure by Dr Amol Mahaldar, nephrologist transplant physician at Manipal Hospitals, who expressed joy over the first kidney transplant in a Covid survivor in the State. “The patient was diagnosed to have diabetic kidney disease and his wife was ready to donate for him. A setback was when he got Covid-19 infection which was managed with isolation dialysis and home isolation with strict monitoring. After he recovered from Covid-19, we could successfully perform laparoscopic kidney donation (another first in the State) and send the donor home on day three to full mobility. Recipient went home on day 10 and has now completed five months and even received the Covid- 19 vaccination. He has now resumed duty in Konkan Railway Corporation,” stated Dr Mahaldar.
