Successful Surgery Removes 5.5 Kg Kidney Tumour At RMLIMS, Lucknow

Doctors at Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) in Lucknow have successfully performed surgery to remove a 5.5 kg tumour from a patient’s kidney. This tumour, reportedly the second heaviest of its kind to be removed in India, required a complex four-hour procedure on June 27. The tumour had extended into a major vein, necessitating careful extraction.

The patient, Madhuri, 56, from Sahjana village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, had endured severe stomach pain for two years before being diagnosed at RMLIMS. Despite seeking treatment at multiple hospitals prior to this, relief had eluded her until she was referred to RMLIMS.

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The Urology department at RMLIMS conducted a CT scan which revealed a 30-cm tumour in her left kidney. Alok Srivastava, the lead surgeon, highlighted the challenging nature of the surgery due to the tumour’s infiltration into the inferior vena cava, a crucial vein responsible for blood circulation.

“It is the second heaviest kidney tumour removed in India. The heaviest, weighing six kg, was removed at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi in 2019,” Srivastava noted, underscoring the rarity and complexity of such cases.

The removal of a 5.4 kg kidney tumour from a 28-year-old woman at Sion Hospital in Mumbai in 2016 is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.