Artificial kidney for premature infant
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An extremely premature Polish infant weighing just 820 grams has become the world鈥檚 smallest and youngest patient to escape death thanks to an artificial kidney.
Born 15 weeks early, Kamil nearly died from organ failure a few days later and conventional methods used to keep preterm babies alive proved ineffective.
鈥淗e suffered grave edema鈥 or water-retention causing swelling as his kidneys were unable to cope, doctor Wojciech Kowalik, head of the intensive care department of newborns at Legnica hospital in southwest Poland, said yesterday.
Being hooked up to an artificial kidney was his only hope, but the procedure had never been successful in such an extreme preterm case. Similar treatment is usually applied to newborns weighing at least three kilograms. The treatment only worked for half of the 10 newborns who needed it at the Legnica hospital, according to Kowalik.
鈥淔or a baby weighing just 820 grams, it鈥檚 exceptional. We later learnt that he was the smallest in the world to survive thanks to this method. It has already been tried with children as small, but none survived,鈥 Kowalik added.
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