Japan: Warning for kidney transplantation for healthy people

The suspected kidney cancer of a mother was matched for her son last September at Akita Hospital (Japan).

Over the weekend, the leader of Akita University Hospital (Akita Prefecture, Japan) confirmed: A tumor in the mother's kidney developed after being inserted into her son's body. Earlier, doctor Akita also warned that if the tumor was malignant, the mother's kidney cancer could spread to her son.

Kazuo Mizoi, leader of Akita Hospital, said that this male patient (in his 30s) needed a kidney transplant because his kidneys had functional impairment and his mother (outside 60 years of age) agreed to have a kidney son. . However, a preoperative test showed that the mother's kidney had a 1 cm diameter tumor.

(Artwork: VNN) But the hospital still decided to continue to perform the surgery based on the results of imaging diagnosis conducted by Professor Tomonori Habuchi urologist. The hospital judged that the possibility was a malignant tumor and that the tumor could spread very low.

Currently, both mother and son are in good health condition. Recently, the use of 'problematic' kidneys has become a hot issue in the medical community and the Japanese government after the discovery of sick kidney transplants performed by the home Makoto Mannami urinary tract at Uwajima hospital (Ehime province).

Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is considering banning the use of ' problematic ' kidneys in kidney transplants.

According to experts, Akita Hospital's ' problematic ' kidney transplant does not fall into the group of kidney transplants when it is unclear about the condition of the transplanted kidney. In this case, both the mother and her son agreed to perform kidney transplants and Akita Hospital also conducted careful examinations before and during the surgery.

Thuong Vu