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How Does Kidney Loss In A Baby Affect Its Future Life?

Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here... hi my name is Jorge and i just want to know the risk of a new born baby loosing one of her kidney cause she have some problems and right after she is out she have to go to a surgery to take one of her kidney so i want to know the risk in all this and how will be her life after this thank you

posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2014

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Pediatrician, Pulmonology , Dr. Sumanth Amperayani's Response

Hi... if one diseased kidney is removed and in that case if the other kidney is completely functioning normally you need not worry. There need should not be any problems. But only thing is you need to be very careful about urinary tract infections. If the urinary tract infection leads on to upper urinary tract infection and the single remaining kidney gets scarred then it can cause problems in future.

Regards - Dr. Sumanth

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How Does Kidney Loss In A Baby Affect Its Future Life?

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