Another success story of Indian doctors surfaced recently when surgeons in a Delhi-based hospital performed a very difficult surgery to give life to a teenager who was suffering from congenital ureteral stricture. In this case, surgeons used a vestigial organ like appendix as a natural graft to bridge the ureter after removing the constriction. An 18-year-old boy from Badaun in Uttar Pradesh faced the life-threatening condition called "congenital ureteral stricture", where a large portion of his ureter, the duct through which urine passes from the kidney to the bladder, had become too narrow causing severe renal failure.
This condition was made worse because the boy was born with a single functioning kidney. Surgeons from a Delhi-based hospital found a unique solution for this problem. They have used the child’s appendix, a tube-like structure attached to the large intestine that has no…
