Kochi: Mohan Kambrath is 47, and in the past 22 years, he had to undergo 14 surgeries as he battled a rare condition which left him with the burden of recurring kidney stones. After all those painful years, the Kannur native looks relieved now after a medical team at a Kochi hospital found a solution to suffering with a rare 15th surgery. It has been five months since he underwent a simultaneous liver and kidney transplant at VPS Lakeshore Hospital and he says it feels like “a new life” for him.
A native of Kuttiyattoor in Kannur district, Mohan is all set to rejoin his work as an office assistant-cum-driver in a Dubai company. The doctors at Lakeshore decided to go for the combined surgery after diagnosing that Kambrath was suffering from Primary Hyperoxaluria, a rare genetic disorder that leads to recurrent kidney stones and damage of other vital organs. Primary Hyperoxaluria is a rare genetic disorder affecting only 1 in 10 million (one crore) people.
Affected individuals lack a specific enzyme in their liver that normally prevents the accumulation of oxalate in the body. Excessive oxalate can lead to the formation of kidney stones and damage of other vital organs like heart and eyes. "It's my new life, as I have spent most of my time in the hospital for surgeries and my sleep was often disturbed by bony pain because of the accumulation of oxalate crystals in the bone.
I had my first stone removal surgery at Calicut Medical College when I was 24 years old. After that, .