After several misdiagnoses that caused a 27-year-old to lose her kidney, Latifa Hospital doctors succeeded in salvaging a patient's remaining kidney by performing a minimally invasive surgery to rectify her ureter after it has expanded three times its original size.

The patient was diagnosed with bilateral Hydronephrosis and hydroureter which is the swelling of the kidneys when urine flow is obstructed in any of part of the urinary tract.

Professor Arnaud Wattiez, Gynaecology Consultant at Latifa Hospital said the patient's ureter swelled three times its original size due to hydronephrosis, which means that a ureter and the renal pelvis (the connection of the ureter to the kidney) are overfilled with urine.

He said that in her case this was caused due to endometriosis, a condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain, especially associated with menstruation.
Professor Wattiez along with Dr Razan Nasir, gynecology specialist at Latifa Hospital conducted a surgery to relieve the obstruction. He said that relieving the obstruction was necessary to stop her from losing her right kidney after she had already lost he left one.

" We then had to conduct a complicated surgery that took more than five hours to reimplant the ureter in the bladder, which a minimally invasive procedure conducted by endoscopy," he said.

Dr Nasir said the condition can be caused by various congenital deformities of the ureter, kidney stones, endometriosis (in young patients) to name a few.
"The woman, whose case is considered relatively rare came from Pakistan to specifically be treated at Latifa hospital. Her surgery was a success and she was discharged to go back to her family in Pakistan.