Beijing: In a rare case, a 17-year-old girl has been discovered with four kidneys when she repeatedly visited hospital for back pain.
A teenager from China, Xiaolin had undergone through ultrasound which showed her having four kidneys. She was healthy all her childhood but recently she complaint of having a lower back ache regularly. Initially Xiaolin thought it was premenstrual syndrome, but after doctor said that she was suffering from a disease called renal duplex monstrosity.
“The mortality rate for this is one in 1,500 people, which means most of the people would not even realise they have this problem,” a doctor said. The extra kidneys cannot be easily removed and used to help others in need as it attach themselves to the regular functioning kidney.
The doctor said. “Consequently, functionally speaking, extra kidneys cannot be removed and used to help others in need.”
Doctors eventually performed a ureteralreplantation surgery and kept all of Xiaolin’s kidneys. Now Xiaolin is recovering well from the operation .
