Odisha girl becomes youngest incompatible kidney recipient

Odisha: Pratyasha is  a three-and-half-year-old girl from Odisha state. She is suffering from a rare kind of renal failure. It was cured through an incompatible kidney transplant at a city hospital Medanta here today, Wednesday. When Pratyasha was a month old she could not pass urine. Due to the disease, the urine, which had to go out of the body, used to move towards the kidneys, causing renal problem. Gradually kidneys failed. When parents of Pratyasha consulted doctors at the city-based Medanta - The Medicity, they found that only solution to save her life was kidney transplant. But, there were no blood group-compatible donors. An attempt was made to swap the donors with other families and for cadaveric (relating to corpse) donations list, but things did not materialize.
Usually, transplants are done only if a compatible donor is found. But the biggest risks involved in incompatible transplants are the hyper-acute rejection, which can even lead to death.After six months of desperate search, the Kidney and Urology Institute of the hospital planned to take the mother as the donor, thus making it a blood group-incompatible transplant. The child was B+ while the mother was A+.
Doctors stated that this procedure to be the first ever conducted on such a young patient in entire south Asia. The entire process of surgery cost is Rs 24 lakh. Following the success of Pratyasha's incompatible transplant, doctors said she would have to be under medication worth Rs 12,000-13,000 every month.