Hyderabad: Kenyan woman undergoes successful kidney transplant at AINU

A 55-year-old woman from Kenya successfully underwent a living-related kidney transplant at AINU, Hitec City, after exhausting treatment options back home. Her sister donated a kidney, and doctors said the patient recovered well after surgery.

Hyderabad: A 55-year-old woman from Kenya, Fathumo Mohamud Dubow, suffering from end-stage kidney disease, has successfully undergone a living-related kidney transplant surgery at Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU), Hitec city.

The woman who was suffering from polycystic kidney disease and end-stage renal failure, had exhausted available treatment options in Kenya and required an urgent kidney transplant.

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Accompanied by her young daughter and sister, she travelled to AINU and doctors advised a living donor kidney transplant as the most appropriate treatment option.

Her sister volunteered to donate a kidney and a transplant surgery was performed in September 2025 in a single surgical session, during which the kidney was retrieved from the donor and transplanted into the recipient.

“This transplant required careful donor selection, detailed pre-operative evaluation, and close coordination between surgical, nephrology and critical care teams,” Dr. K Kranthi Kumar, senior nephrologist, AINU Hospitals, Hitec-city, said.

The patient required 10 days of in-hospital recovery before being deemed fit for discharge, doctors added.