China News Service, Wuhan, December 17 (Wen Honglei, Huang Jieying) Two-year-old Lulu (a pseudonym) suffers from repeated kidney and bladder malformations, and has repeated urinary system infections for two years.
The reporter learned from the Hubei Provincial Maternity and Child Health Hospital on the 17th that the hospital had removed this "time bomb" for Lulu through surgery.
In 2018, Ms. Chen found multiple malformations in the fetal urinary system during an ultrasound examination during pregnancy.
However, due to many years of infertility, Ms. Chen finally got pregnant with the baby. After consulting many experts, the whole family repeatedly discussed and decided to keep the baby.
After Lulu was born, he was diagnosed with duplication of the kidney and duplication of the ureter on the right, dysplasia of the polycystic kidney on the left, and duplication of the bladder.
After several inspections, it was found that Lulu's bilateral renal function was basically in the normal range, which could maintain the needs of life.
Ms. Chen decided to wait for the road to grow up so that she can better tolerate treatment after surgery.
In the past two years, Lulu's growth and development were normal, but during the conservative treatment period, urinary system infections occurred many times, so he was hospitalized many times.
The parents couldn't bear to see their children endure anymore, so they approached Yang Xinghai, the chief physician of Pediatric Surgery of Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
After preoperative examination and discussion, Yang Xinghai believed that Lulu could tolerate the operation.
On December 8, Yang Xinghai removed the dysplastic polycystic kidney on the left side for Lulu surgery, and fused the repetitive deformity of the bladder into a bladder.
After the operation, Lulu's kidney function and bladder function returned to normal, and he was discharged from the hospital for recuperation a few days ago.
"Normal people generally only have two kidneys, and the extra is called duplication of kidney malformations in medicine, and it is often combined with duplication of ureteral malformations." Yang Xinghai said, most duplication kidneys are fused into one body and cannot be separated, so some people are long It has a kidney, but its function is not much different from a person with two kidneys.
He pointed out that asymptomatic and uncomplicated repetitive kidneys do not require treatment, but repetitive kidney stones, hydronephrosis infection, and ectopic ureteral opening require surgical treatment.
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