The surgery was completed on December 8, 2009, following which Patil wrote to the Guinness Book of World Records.
It was probably the biggest challenge of his career. But Dhule-based urologist Dr Ashish Patil successfully managed to remove an astounding 1,72,155 kidney stones from a patient to find his name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The surgery was completed on December 8, 2009, following which Patil wrote to the Guinness Book of World Records.
After verifying the records, Patil on October 20 was declared as the holder of the current record for most kidney stones removed from a patient. “It took us four hours to remove all the stones,” Patil said.
The patient, Dhanraj Wadile from Shahada near Nandurbar, 45, suffered from a congenital disorder — pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction of the left kidney. In simple terms, it means that his kidney opening was narrow. “This reduces the function of the organ resulting in kidney stones,” said Patil, who is the director of the Tejnaksh Healthcare’s Institute of Urology in Dhule.
Six months before the surgery, Wadile, a paan-seller, complained of severe stomach ache and weight loss. “I couldn’t go to work for those six months and was unable to eat,” Wadile said. After a thorough check up at Tejnaksh, it was found that Wadile had an extraordinary number of kidney stones.
“He had consulted many doctors and was on medication for months, but could not get relief,” Patil said. “We had to do a plastic surgery to widen the opening of the kidney. Therefore, we used the techniques of open surgery and flexible endoscopy with laser to remove the stones.” Patil said the doctors who helped him operate upon Wadile could not believe the number of kidney stones they removed after the four-hour surgery.
Interestingly, a doctor from Nashik held the previous record for removing the most number of kidney stones (1,492) from a patient. “Kidney stone is a problem for many Indians. We tend to eat a lot of protein-rich dals, consume less water and live in a tropical climate that increases the chances of the formation of kidney stones. Besides, Indians are also genetically predisposed to kidney-related congenital anomalies,” Patil explained.
Pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction affects 2-4 patients per 1,000 people. “The pathology is present since birth and can be detected from the womb of the mother. This defect is normally corrected after birth,” Patil said.
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