Delhi: 10-hour liver transplant on five-month-old
TNN | Apr 10, 2019, 05:37 IST
Representative imageNEW DELHI: A five-month-old girl from West Bengal, who was suffering from acute liver failure, received a new lease of life after a 10-hour transplant surgery at a city hospital in south Delhi, doctors said on Tuesday. The organ was donated by her mother.
Arijit Dey, 36, father of Ariana, said her daughter had contracted "an abnormal level of jaundice" late February, and few days later she was diagnosed with a very high level of bilirubin.
"A team of doctors gave barely five days of survival for my baby," Dey said. Dey, a resident of Uttarpara in Hooghly district, said, he, his 30-year-old wife, Shyantani Dey, and his brother flew the baby to Delhi in the first week of March for a liver transplant.
Dr Subhash Gupta, chairman, liver and biliary sciences, Max Super Speciality Hospital at Saket, explained the challenges in the case. "It was a case of acute liver failure, so we hardly had time to plan the surgery as we would do normally. Also, due the age difference between the donor and the child, the transplant was almost sculptural," he said.
In a regular transplant, half of the liver is transplanted but, in Ariana's case, the doctors took out a small portion from her mother's liver.
Arijit Dey, 36, father of Ariana, said her daughter had contracted "an abnormal level of jaundice" late February, and few days later she was diagnosed with a very high level of bilirubin.
"A team of doctors gave barely five days of survival for my baby," Dey said. Dey, a resident of Uttarpara in Hooghly district, said, he, his 30-year-old wife, Shyantani Dey, and his brother flew the baby to Delhi in the first week of March for a liver transplant.
Dr Subhash Gupta, chairman, liver and biliary sciences, Max Super Speciality Hospital at Saket, explained the challenges in the case. "It was a case of acute liver failure, so we hardly had time to plan the surgery as we would do normally. Also, due the age difference between the donor and the child, the transplant was almost sculptural," he said.
In a regular transplant, half of the liver is transplanted but, in Ariana's case, the doctors took out a small portion from her mother's liver.
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