Indian man has 5 kidneys

He's just greedy!

Just think of the cloning possibilities, carrying our own interchangeable spare parts.

Not Bad.... I have (had) 3 spleens. In a car accident in 1979 I lacerated my spleen. Dr's at Rutland VT general Hosp went in to remove it & found a total of 3. They removed 1 ...leaving me with 2. who knows...down the rode Maybe I will trade this guy JohnLam aka formerly known as "Tri-Spleen" now known as "bi-spleen"

Always nice to have an extra filter for some major alcohol comsumption

Wow, a pretty moving story if you read it. I was just wondering what will happen with the kidneys left in there if they are not functioning. Doesn't the body usually form a calcium shell around foreign objects? If they are not functioning then wouldn't the body see them as foreign objects? I hope that they didn't decided to leave them in there since it was a free operation and so they took the least expensive route. I only ask because of another story on here from a while back I read about a woman who had a baby removed after quite a few years and had formed a "stone baby" and had to have it r... [More]

i agree, if those kidneys are not functioning, they shouldnt be there at all, i bet its not the last time that he will see his doctor.

Actually, it's fairly common to leave them in sometimes. I THINK so, anyways. My ex-bf had three transplants and all 5 were left in there when he passed away.

But how did they put in the extra three kidneys? I would have thought there are only two sets of renal arteries and veins where kidneys can be plugged in

Aren't the diseased kidneys that were left inside going to necrotise or something?

to rot, yeah