Pune: A team of doctors at Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital (ABMH) successfully performed a robot-assisted living donor liver transplant surgery on a 12-year-old girl suffering from end-stage liver disease on March 12.
The girl was diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis leading to end-stage liver disease. “In the girl’s case, her mother came forward and donated part of her healthy liver, paving way for an early transplant. Otherwise, organ donation is a time-consuming process. We planned for a living donor liver transplant using our advanced robot-assisted technology to ensure accuracy and faster recovery of the donor,” ABMH’s liver transplant surgeon Sharan Narute said.
The surgery lasted for six-and-a-half hours. The donor had an excellent recovery and was sent home after three days of the surgery. The girl also responded well and was discharged home on the seventh day after the surgery.
Rekha Dubey, chief executive officer, ABMH, said, “This is the first-of-its-kind robotic living donor liver transplant surgery in the Western part of India carried out on a paediatric patient.”
The girl’s mother said, “She is feeling better and all her health issues have resolved post-transplant surgery.”
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