One liver for two really a breakthrough??
In the Russian Center of Surgery named after Petrovsky new surgery had given hope to thousands of adults and children
. Half of the liver from a donor who died in a car crash, was transplanted into a 10 year-old boy. The second half transplanted to an adult woman.
Both patients are doing well and are on the mend. Thus, the first time in the history of domestic medicine child liver transplants from unrelated adult to him. And besides the liver of one man for the first time used for two patients.
More than 40 years ago was the country's first successful transplantation. And the corresponding plaque on the wall screwed. Now, almost at the same table, that there was another breakthrough domestic medicine.
Sergei Gauthier, director of organ transplantation, Russian Research Center of Surgery. Academician Petrovsky RAMS: "For the first time in our Russian practice, we are part of cadaveric liver transplant from an adult donor to a small child, who was waiting for transplantation have a half years."
In three years, Pasha Molchanov yet oxygen mask almost all face, and drink it can be literally a drop in the day. However, all tests show - is recovering. If the child begins to play up, then surely live.
Elena Molchanov, mother of Pavel Molchanov: "Everything went fine, everyone is happy. I hope that we will recover quickly, and all remain in the past, like a bad dream. "
The little patient was cirrhosis of the liver. It is evident that the whites of the eyes are still quite yellow - a consequence of a rare congenital disease. Before surgery these patients did only abroad. Russian law does not allow used as a donor children, so in some cases be suitable for transplant organs is extremely difficult, even if the donor is an adult and the child-recipient families.
The boy's father is seriously ill and the mother is an incompatible blood group. Output was really one - to remove part of the liver of the deceased person.
Sergei Gauthier, director of organ transplantation, Russian Research Center of Surgery. Academician Petrovsky RAMS: "The liver was divided into two parts. One could be transplanted adult patients, which was done in this case. And the rest of the liver transplant, too. This operation is the first time in Russia was made at the Institute of Transplantation.
35-year-old woman, which now Pasha Molchanov one liver for two, is also gradually improving. When the problem of donor organs is solved, the majority of such operations, according to doctors, had been successful.
One liver for two really a breakthrough??
By: Leslie Tobar
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