A new record has been set in a Mumbai hospital, which removed a 5.5 kg tumour from patient’s kidney. It is being considered as the heaviest kidney tumour documented in medical literature. The Guinness World Records just confirmed the record. The team of doctors was led by Dr Ajit Sawant, head of urology, who successfully removed a tumour from patient Manju Devi’s kidney. She is a 28-year-old woman from Bihar’s Darbhanga district. She complained about an abdominal lump. Sawant has been living with the pain for three years.
A CT scan revealed a gigantic tumour which has completely replaced her right kidney. Manju Sawant was not able to continue her life in the normal manner, as she struggled to do her daily chores.
"She had persistent pain on the right side and was passing urine in blood. The tumor —31cm by 19cm—was compressing the liver and pushing the vessels, intestines and the pancreas to the left half of the abdomen. She was referred to multiple hospitals over the past three years but the surgery was deferred because of the size of the tumour," stated a release from Sion Hospital.
The tumour was successfully operated out in November 2016 following an eight-hour long surgery performed by Dr Sawant, Dr Prakash Pawar and uroanesthetists Dr Geeta Patkar and Dr Aparna Nerulkar. Guinness World Record sent their confirmation lately, making it world’s biggest kidney tumour to be extracted.
"The enormity of the surgery can be understood by comparing the weight of the kidney tumour—5.5kg—with that of a normal kidney, which is 110gm to 140gm," said Sawant.
After six months of surgery, the feat was confirmed. Manju was kept on a ventilator for the day. She went back to normal in a week.
