Apollo Hospitals Successfully Performed Two Complicated Liver Transplants on Children with a Rare Disorder
Liver transplants on a Six-month old baby and an Eleven-year-old girl Chennai: Apollo Hospital doctors successfully saved two young lives by performing complicated living donor liver transplants on a Six-month old baby and an Eleven-year-old girl who had extreme health complications during the pandemic. Mothers of both children gave a new lease of life to them once again by donating a part of their liver. (L to R) Dr.Velmurugan Anesthesist, Dr. Elankumaran- Surgical Gastroenterologist, Liver Transplant Surgeon, Dr. Dhanasekar Kesavelu-Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Dr. Raja Rajan-Vascular Surgeon, Dr.Venkatachalam, DMS, Apollo Hospitals Six-month old Baby Abhyansh Mondal had persistent jaundice since his birth in January 2020 which eventually got worse with time. The baby was affected by a rare genetic disorder due to which he was born without a bile duct. Abhyansh Mondal son of Abhishek Mondal and Samyuktha Kumari from Jharkhand was suffering from Biliary Atresia, a rare, cong...