
Grandmother's Gift: Life-Saving Kidney Transplant for Five-Year-Old
Published on: Sept. 1, 2025, 4:41 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
A rare kidney transplant was performed on a five-year-old boy in Bengaluru, with his grandmother as the donor. This operation is possibly the youngest reported grandmother-to-grandson transplant in India. The surgery involved complex challenges, including accommodating an adult kidney in a child's body, achieved using advanced robotic technology.