 Hi, my name is Pratap Aditya Chakravarty, I'm a resident of Bangalore and I stay very close to the Manipal Hospital, Varthukuri in Bangalore. I'm a kidney transplant recipient and I was operated upon about two months back here in the Manipal Hospital at Varthukuri. Well, my journey has been for about two years and so about two years back, there was some pathological tests which were conducted and it was found that my creatinine levels had gone beyond the permissible limits and initially I thought that it was possible because I was doing a lot of walking and stuff like that but then I wanted to take an opinion So, I met up with Dr. Rashbi and Dr. Rashbi did a whole lot of tests to eliminate the various reasons, underlying reasons that could be the cause for the increase in creatinine. Hi, I'm Dr. Rashbi, Consultant Nefrologist Manipal Hospital, Varthukuri. So, this is about one of my patients, Mr. Pratap Aditya, 48 years old. He first time met me in 2021, it was a casual visit for finding out the cause of his renal dysfunction. Initially, he used to have a creatinine of around 1.8, then later he was also a diabetic. So, we suggested a kidney biopsy for the same. He underwent biopsy and was found to have a chronic granulomatous interstitial nephritis, which is quite a rare condition. So, we did try to treat it with a trial of steroids and everything but unfortunately he didn't respond. Usually interstitial diseases take longer to progress but unfortunately he started progressing much earlier. So, and in mid of 2022 he started having worsening kidney dysfunction, which probably would have gone on to dialysis. That is when we started priming him about the requirement of transplant and having a life donor versus get-over transplant. As months went by, my condition worsened but it was very, very slow. Around November, we decided that it was time for me to go in for my transplant and get prepared. We had Prasanna out here who is in Dr. Rashmi's team who is the transplant coordinator. And finally, around beginning of December of 2022, I had to be put into dialysis because my condition worsened a lot. That was the first time that I could not actually walk and I was feeling so, so heavy. And the entire team out here in Manipal Hospital at Vatsapuri, they sprung into action. They ensured that, you know, my dialysis and my dialysis was done from here, all right. And that was done very smoothly. The insurers guys, they really helped me out in terms of sorting out my financial affairs. And I think I did about six rounds of dialysis before I went in for my transplant. So his wife came forward to donate the kidney and we started the evaluation then. So we had planned a preemptive transplant where the patient undergoes transplant without any dialysis. However, in the end of starting of December, he did require a couple of sessions of dialysis pre-transplant. We had a thorough evaluation pre-transplant because his native kidney disease was chronic grandlometis nephritis. Of course, we had to rule out TB, which was a nightmare if he was ongoing immunosuppression. Hi, I'm Dr. Chaitan. I'm a urologist and kidney transplant surgeon at Varthu Road, Manipal. So this patient, Mr. Pratapaditya, who came to us with CKD, he came to me in the month of October for the pre-operative workup. So we bugged him up. We found out he had bladder outlet obstruction along with chronic kidney disease. So the wife was donor. We bugged her up. So we explained to them that they might need a correction for bladder outlet during the time of surgery. I am fully aware of what happened after that. You know, for eight days I was there in the isolation unit within the ICU of the hospital and I must make a mention that we had a wonderful team of the three, four senior nurses who attended to me 24 bar seven for all the eight days that I was there and they attended to every requirement that I had. I must specifically make a mention of Dr. Chaitan. Dr. Chaitan's contribution in this entire process is amazing. Donor nephrectomy was done with laparoscopy guidance. The post-operative status of both the patients were smooth. Of course, they were minor hiccups, so which we managed ultimately and he had to re-admit because of a minor infection which we successfully treated and both donor and recipient are doing well. So transplant is definitely not a bed of roses but it is definitely the best solution available for kidney disease. Since then, it's been two months now and it has been a phenomenal journey with the doctors, you know, attending to me and my requirements. My recovery has been very, very good and has been very, very quick also I must say. One of the biggest contributors there physiotherapy team because they ensured I was getting my exercises, my pulmonary physiotherapy was happening, they got me to walk and they kept me motivated. They visited not once but you know twice or thrice in a day and they ensured that you know I was completely motivated. Everyone out here in the hospital has helped me out. Best wishes to anyone who's going through this process. I'm sure you come out fighting fit. Thank you.