Pune, Mar 9 (Reporter) City-based Kulkarni Uro Surgery Institute (Urokul Hospital) performed two kidney transplants using a laparoscopic technique by noted laparoscopic surgeon Dr Jyotsna Kulkarni and her team recently. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Dr Sanjay Kulkarni, director of UROKUL-Kulkarni Uro Surgery Institute and past president of the Urology Society of India, said that in first transplant, Nashik-based Shyamala Kulkarni (66) donated her kidney to her brother Hemant Kulkarni’s wife Sukanya (58), who was suffering from chronic kidney disease. In second transplant, Mumbai-based pediatrician Dr Popat Shravan Sathe (61) donated his kidney to his 29-year-old physiotherapist son Tushar, he informed. Explaining the procedure, he said that traditionally the donor, a healthy individual, would have to undergo a major operation where the kidney is removed after a large incision. However, using the laparoscopic technique, tiny incisions are made to remove the kidney and the donor goes back to his / her routine activity in a few days, he added. Under guidance of Dr Jyotsna Kulkarni, team of urologists Dr Sanjay Kulkarni, Dr Pankaj Joshi, Dr Shreyas Bhadranwar, Robotic surgeon Dr Amit Hosmani, nephrologist Dr Suhas Mondhe, Dr Shruti Dange, Dr Uday Chandankhede, Dr Adarsh Kuri, Dr Apurva Anand, Dr Amey Talpallikar, Dr Manjushri Pardeshi, Dr Sudhir Phadake, Saumya Kulkarni performed these two transplants successively...////...