• A two-year-old girl named Parvathy from Kodakara underwent a successful dual live donor transplant at Aster Medcity, Kochi.
  • According to the doctors at the hospital, the infant suffered from primary hyperoxaluria type-1.
  • It is a congenital defect in which the deficiency of a liver enzyme results in the unusual increase in the blood oxalate levels damaging the kidney. 
  • The girl weighed only 7kgs.
  • As per the organ transplant manual, a child has to weigh 10kgs to undergo a transplant.
  • Dual live transplant has been successfully performed on infants weighing 9kgs previously.
  • But, it is for the first time that the doctors at Aster Medcity has performed the complex procedure on a 7kg infant.
  • While Parvathy's father donated his liver, her grandmother had donated one of her kidneys.  
  • But there were certain complications because of the unavoidable differences 
  • In spite of certain unavoidable differences between the kidney of an adult and a child, the doctors were able to save the child's life.

 

Source: ET Healthworld