• Apollo Hospital in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, cured a 7-year-old boy who suffered from Wilson's Disease.
  • It is a rare genetic disorder in which copper deposits are formed naturally in the brain, eyes and liver.
  • The boy underwent a liver transplant, the donor being his mother.
  • Due to the disorder he has very high bilirubin.
  • Doctors at the hospital had to provide him with Fresh Frozen Plasma as he also showed abnormal clotting attributes.
  • Although the blood group of the mother and son did match and a slice of liver was donated by her, the surgery was challenging.
  • It was because the donated part of the liver had two very small plasma vessels of 1 mm and 1.5 mm each.
  • According to Dr. Manish C. Verma, joining small blood vessels like this is risky as they are prone clotting post surgery. 
  • But all went well, the boy has now recovered and discherged from the hospital. 

 

Source: India Today