New Delhi, India (CU)_ A seven-year-old kid who was diagnosed with sclerosing cholangitis, a rare condition that affects two out of 1 million children, went through a liver transplantation surgery in a Delhi hospital. According to the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, the youngster received a portion of his liver from a 40-year-old brain-dead donor.
According to a formal statement released by Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director and Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist at Apollo Hospitals Group, the youngster had been diagnosed with sclerosing cholangitis, which is a rare condition that affects 0.2 out of 1,000 children.
Anupam Sibal explained the rare medical condition. He said, “In sclerosing cholangitis, inflammation and fibrosis (scarring) develops in bile ducts within the liver and outside the liver. These scars make the ducts narrow, jaundice and itching develops and over a period to time cirrhosis and liver failure develops. The cause of this disease is unknown. Liver transplant is the only treatment option when end stage liver failure is established”.
According to Neerav Goyal, senior consultant for liver transplant at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, “The child’s condition had been deteriorating progressively. An immediate transplant was needed to save his life. A team of surgeons went to Jaipur, harvested the organ and brought it to Delhi to be transplanted into the child”. Goyal stated that the organ extraction took nearly four hours due to the need to break the liver in order to fix it for a young child. He said, “On the way back, they could make it from Jaipur to Delhi in three-and-a-half-hours due to the green corridor created. We started the transplant around 11.30 pm here and ended around 8 am on Thursday
