Moroccan doctors perform liver transplants from living donors --[Reported by Umva mag]

The Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat announced on Sunday that multidisciplinary teams performed two liver transplants in less than 48 hours using organs obtained simultaneously from related living donors,

This unprecedented achievement in Moroccan medicine was pulled off in collaboration with the Paul Brousse Hospital in France, according to a press release.

On the night of September 9-10, a 19-year-old woman suffering from fulminant hepatitis and acute liver failure fell into a coma. The medical team successfully performed a liver transplant using the left lobe of her 53-year-old father’s liver.

A second liver transplant was performed less than 36 hours later. A 65-year-old woman with decompensated cirrhosis, an advanced stage of liver failure, received the right lobe of her 33-year-old daughter’s liver (right hemi-lobe).

“The four critical operations, performed on two donors and two recipients, required meticulous preparation, coordination and management of pre- and post-operative care, and concluded an innovative program of multidisciplinary medical, surgical and nursing expertise launched in 2019 at the National Institute of Oncology, affiliated to Rabat University Hospital,” the hospital’s press release said.

“The use of related living donors offers a crucial alternative for patients on the liver transplant waiting list in Morocco, especially in selected cases where [the criteria of] biological compatibility, anatomical compatibility and forensic validation are met,” the statement concluded.

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