An Indian hospital performs the largest chain of worldwide liver transplants

A hospital in the India said yesterday having carried out successfully the largest chain of liver transplants in the world, which involved five patients and allowed to save the lives of three children with dysfunction fatal.

The chain of interventions took place on 25 December in the Centre medical Medanta New Delhi, lasted for 20 hours and she was executed by a team of 40 doctors and more than 100 nurses and staff assistant in six rooms different.

"Needed a complex liver surgery." "This plan as the launch of a rocket, scoring goals times and responsibilities", stated in a press conference the head of Medanta, A.S. Soin, transplant surgeon who led the operation.

A month ago, Tejasri and Ansa, of three and two-year-old girls respectively, and the child anise, one-year "were three strangers United by the need for a liver to survive", explained hospital in a u000aCommuniqué.

Relatives of the two first girls volunteered to donate part of their bodies, then but this direct transplant was not possible to have adult blood type incompatible with the of the girls.

But the blood between adults and children groups were compatible instead if crossed the donation of organs between the two families, which is why Medical Center promoted an exchange of livers among the parties.

The third child in question, anise (which like Ansa suffered biliary atresia), did not have a donor but could benefit in turn from the liver of one of the girls, Tejasri, which for her was not functional even though it would in another body.

Tejasri suffered from urinary tract disease of maple syrup, a strange metabolic disorder which could deflate with a new liver that had one above normal in that body but was not present in your.

"The three transplanted livers were well" u000a"met by their target audience and five patients have recovered extremely well", said at the hearing before the press Chief of Pediatrics hepatológica, Nilam Mohan.

"This is a large chain that was created by the circumstances and it has become a success." "Patients were given high last week", said to Efe Mohan.

The mother of one of girls operated Ansa, said that "with this kind of experiences increase the hope in medicine".

"My daughter has been born." "Have given us a new life", told Efe.

According to their data, the Medanta hospital completed last year 250 liver transplants and in total has made 925 to date, representing "the highest" nationwide Asian.

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