A team of doctors at the government-run Guwahati Medical College Hospital (GMCH) in Assam successfully treated a rare dialysis-induced skin ailment by performing a kidney transplant on the patient.
A report of an operation conducted on a 30-year-old female patient in December last year by a team of doctors from the super-speciality unit of GMCH, which was led by Dr Shashank Kumar Barua recently published in a US-based medical journal.
Pseudoporphyria is a skin condition, in which multiple lesions that look like burns and peeling skin appear all over the body of a kidney failure patient when they start hemodialysis, a process that filters waste and water from the blood when the kidneys stop working in a normal way.
The article in Cureus mentioned “Pseuporphyria has been seen in patients with end-stage renal (kidney) disease on hemodialysis. No treatment has proved efficacious in the treatment of pseudoporphyria. The patient was treated with all available medication in (medical) literature, but wasn’t relieved,”.
In this article it’s also mentioned “However, all skin lesions completely healed within 22 days post renal transplantation. Renal transplantation proved to be the cure for dialysis-induced pseudoporphyria resistant to conventional drug therapy. It is likely the first case of pseudoporphyria caused by dialysis that has been successfully treated with kidney transplantation,”.
