A man with kidneys weighing more than 40 kg will have surgery to remove both

(CNN) – A man from Windsor, in the south of England, will undergo very serious surgery next month after his kidneys grew to an estimated 40 kg (88 pounds) due to polycystic kidney disease (KKD).

Warren Higgs has suffered multiple strokes and aneurysms due to his condition, he told CNN.

According to a GoFundMe page, had a severe stroke 15 years ago due to ERP. That incident was followed by six other strokes.

“It’s horrible, it’s a nasty, nasty disease,” he said, adding that his kidneys were now so big that he couldn’t breathe properly because “they are crushing my lungs.”

The 54-year-old said that ERP causes cysts to grow in his kidneys. In some cases, the disease can reduce kidney function.

Higgs kidney function has been maintained but the organs have grown significantly.

Your doctors don’t know the exact weight of your kidneys, but they estimate that they weigh between 30 and 40 kg each.

Higgs told CNN that a surgeon said his kidneys were larger than those of the current record holder for the largest kidneys in the world.

In 2017, the Guinness Record said that a man in Dubai who had a 4.25 kg kidney removed was the record holder.

Two years later, CNN reported that surgeons successfully extracted a kidney that weighed 7.4 kg from a patient in India.

“It is stealing life slowly,” Higgs said of his illness.

Serious surgery

Higgs said he used to ride a bike and participate in triathlons, but now he can’t because of his condition. He is scheduled to undergo major surgery on July 12 to remove both kidneys.

“It’s a great operation,” he told CNN, adding, “It’s really risky.”

Higgs will have to start dialysis after the operation and will likely need three or four surgeries after the first procedure.

He hopes to donate one kidney for research and take the other home as a souvenir in a glass jar. “I want to have some kind of life again,” he said.

Higgs is a beloved figure within his community in Windsor, where many people are contributing to a fundraiser to help him recover.

The fundraiser was organized by the Windsor Cars taxi company and the Driven Forward charity and the money raised will go towards a specially modified electric tricycle.

«[El triciclo] It will help me regain my fitness, ”Higgs said. Then I can hopefully come back to life.

The 54-year-old man particularly misses participating in sports with his 19-year-old son Sebastian.

Higgs had planned to participate in a Spartan Race, a major obstacle course, before falling ill.

I’d like to go back, ride my bike, and do one of those [carreras de obstáculos] with my son, “he said.

That would mean everything to me.