For the first time in Ukraine: a one-year-old child had a liver transplant from a posthumous donor .
For the first time in Ukraine, a liver transplant was performed on a one-year-old child from a posthumous donor. This was announced on Facebook by the general director of the First Territorial Medical Association of Lviv Oleh Samchuk .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine , Ukraingate , 22 , January , 2022 | Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The operation was performed on January 12, 2022 on one-year-old Artem, a resident of a village in the Carpathians. The child weighed only 9.5 kg, she had a congenital diagnosis of “Atresia of the bile ducts and severe liver failure.” Because of this, the boy had yellow skin and a big belly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August, it became known that only a liver transplant could save Artem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It (transplantation – ed.) From a posthumous donor to such small children in our country has not been done yet, and no one from the Artemkov family was a donor,” Samchuk wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The boy and his mother have lived in hospital since August. On January 12, 2022, it became known that there was a donor in Vinnytsia – a 44-year-old man with a ruptured aneurysm in his brain. Doctors were unable to save the patient, but the man’s family signed a posthumous donation agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The liver, which “lives” outside the body for a maximum of 12 hours, was transported from Vinnytsia by a helicopter of the National Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As noted, the surgery was supernatural. At first, doctors had to divide the donor liver to take part of it for Artem. Then the transplant itself began, which lasted about 12 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And although a successful operation is only half the way – there is no less difficult part ahead, the exhausted child’s body must adapt to life with a new organ, our team continues to make every effort to strengthen Artemko and soon leave our hospital as a healthy baby.” – wrote Samchuk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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