Jipmer performs its first paediatric kidney transplant

The Department of Paediatrics at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) has successfully performed its first paediatric kidney transplant.

The transplant was successfully performed in an 11-year-old girl with end-stage kidney disease. She had been on dialysis for the past one-and-a-half years. The child’s mother donated a kidney.

According to a press note, Jipmer had been performing transplantation through its established transplant programme and gained experience in providing comprehensive transplant care, to all patients including adolescents and young adults.

However, this transplant marked a distinct milestone as the Department of Paediatrics had taken the lead in planning, coordinating, and executing the transplant as a dedicated paediatric programme, in close collaboration with the various specialist teams of Jipmer.