
Five-year-old Bangladeshi boy undergoes liver transplant
The Hindu
Mohammed, diagnosed with fulminant hepatic failure, was airlifted from Qatar to Chennai hospital
A five-year-old boy on ventilator was airlifted to Rela Hospital here from Qatar for an emergency liver transplant recently. The Bangladeshi boy, who doctors said would live for only 72-hours, has been saved.
Mohammed was diagnosed with fulminant hepatic failure (a clinical syndrome of acute and severe liver impairment). Tests in Qatar revealed that the liver enzymes, ammonia, and coagulation profile, were drastically deranged but doctors could not ascertain the cause for the rapid and sudden deterioration.
As his condition worsened he was put on ventilator support and medication to stabilise his blood pressure.
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