In Moscow, held a unique operation on transplantation of a kidney

To save a life when minutes count, managed the doctors of Children's city clinical hospital named Filatova in Moscow. The boy required emergency surgery, the kidney could die.

For urgent survey in a Children's hospital named Filitov Yaroslav Sladkov hit with a sharp pain in the abdomen. The survey showed that the teenager has a serious injury of the ureter. Have any inflammation because of which the child could lose his kidney. We need to operate immediately, but how exactly, surgeons identified only on the Council.

The most simple and obvious solution is to replace ureter by bowel tissue. But having considered all of the risks of this technique declined. Professor Alexander Razumovsky chose the most difficult option - autotransplantation of the kidney. This operation was performed only a few times over the 175 years of its existence the hospital. To nothing to replace the damaged section of the ureter, the kidney is cut from its attachment. Carefully separated from the major blood vessels and sewn into a new place, much lower. To do this, physicians need sufficient time. 40 minutes, the kidney of the child was in a special solution, but once sewed all of the blood vessels, fully earned.

Autotransplantation in children - one of several advanced techniques developed at children's hospital named after Filatov. After surgery, it took 9 days, Yaroslav preparing for discharge. The first month will have to stay home, but then you can go back even to the beloved sport.

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