5 kidneys in one person's body
Usually, a person has two kidneys in his body. However, this person has five kidneys in his body, not two. But five kidneys in one human body.
The man from
Chennai, India, has survived with five kidneys after undergoing three renal
transplant surgeries.
The
41-year-old had been suffering from kidney complications for a long time, media
reports said on Wednesday. At the age of 14 he had two kidney failures.
His first
kidney transplant was performed in 1994. But when that kidney also failed, the
doctors replaced his kidney again in 2005.
The man was
healthy with that kidney for 12 years. But again its complications arise. The
man had been undergoing regular dialysis for four years since then. But due to
various physical complications, he needed a kidney transplant again.
But even
there, doctors face a big challenge. Doctors said that due to the presence of
four crippled kidneys in the body, they have to face problems with the place of
the fifth kidney transplant. Moreover, it was difficult to connect the new kidney
with the artery.
