MGM Healthcare has announces the successful life-saving living donor liver transplant performed on an 11-month-old underweight baby from Orissa.
A press releas said,”The infant, weighing only 7 Kilogram had Hepatoblastoma (Liver Cancer) and also suffered from a rare congenital condition called Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome.”
Senior Consultant & Director of the Institute of Liver Diseases, Thiagarajan Srinivasan said, owing to central location of Tumour in the liver rendered it unsafe for removal without damaging the organ, a decision was made to perform a living donor liver transplant. Further he said “We encountered multiple challenges, including the unavailability of a suitable related living liver donor and post-chemotherapy complications such as cachexia and infection. Overcoming these obstacles required stabilizing the patient through nutritional support and infection treatment, leading to a successful swap living donor liver transplant from a 42-year-old donor from Tamil Nadu, providing a new lease of life to the infant. The swap transplant required excellent coordination and a operating team of 40 medical professionals simultaneously to successfully execute this complex feat for 16 long hours.”
Karthik Mathivanan, Senior Consultant & Associate Director, Institute of Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery, MGM Healthcare, said, “As the child was extremely delicate to handle and underweight the surgery was a great challenge for us. The surgery took 12-hours-to replace the baby’s affected liver.”
Harish Manian, Group CEO, MGM Healthcare said, “Our doctors have accomplished a remarkable feat in saving a child’s life through a highly critical surgery, involving the reduction of the donor’s liver size to ensure a perfect fit for the infant’s small body. At MGM Healthcare, our foremost priority has always been the well-being of our patients, and in this instance, we were privileged to offer a precious life a second chance. The success of this surgery underscores the skill and commitment of our entire medical team, along with the generosity of the donor. Our thoughts and best wishes are extended to the baby and the family.”