Military doctors in St. Petersburg performed a one-time operation to transplant a liver to a child. This operation was performed for the first time for a small patient with fulminating liver failure in the northern capital, reports the press service of the RF Ministry of Defense.
In the background of severe liver dysfunction, the girl developed acute renal failure, then vascular and respiratory failure joined. Doctors diagnosed him with a coma and multiple organ failure.
A team of transplantologists from the hospital surgery clinic of the V.I. CM. Kirov, under the direction of chief surgeon Bogdan Kotiv, began within two hours of the child's hospitalization.
The operation lasted six hours and was successful . Now the girl is in a clear conscience, her kidney function is recovering, there is no sign of transplant rejection.
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