[Concurrent] Ms. Wang (pseudonym), a patient receiving organ donation
I am also the beneficiary of this time (organ donation), and I also feel very lucky. I just want to appeal to everyone to donate useful organs if possible. In fact, it is also on other people's bodies to extend the life of your loved ones. down.
[Explanation] 42-year-old Ms. Wang (pseudonym) called on the society to pay attention to organ donation at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou on March 17.
Recently, the team of Professor Liu Chao, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, completed a split liver transplant operation. The liver donated by a young mother was split into two parts and transplanted to Ms. Wang and a 7-month-old boy Cong respectively. Cong (pseudonym), let the two get a new life.
Both Ms. Wang and Congcong recovered well after the operation and were discharged from the hospital.
[Explanation] According to reports, split liver transplantation is to completely split a liver into two or three parts that can function independently, and transplant them to two or more patients respectively.
[Concurrent] Liu Chao, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
Split liver transplantation expands the liver source pool. Originally, a patient like this may only be used by one adult (one liver). In fact, as long as the size of the donor liver is suitable and the quality of the donor liver is evaluated, it is divided into two parts. It means that we have expanded the source of liver donations, and one person can save two people.
The first one I think is that the two patients are very lucky, that is to say, they have to wait for a big love donor and the support of the family of the big love donor to match the two of them.
Another is that the size of the donor's liver is suitable for both adults and children.
[Explanation] Ms. Wang is a mother who has a son and a daughter.
This year, he was diagnosed with hepatolenticular degeneration, liver failure, and extremely poor coagulation function (prothrombin time reached 31.5 seconds).
And Cong Cong is a 7-month-old boy.
According to Cong Cong's mother, Ms. Chen (pseudonym), when Cong Cong was just two months old, she developed yellowing symptoms all over her body.
However, 2 months after discharge, the child gradually developed jaundice and systemic edema, and the symptoms continued to worsen.
The doctor told me that only a liver transplant could save the child's life.
[Concurrent] Liu Chao, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
For adults and children, because they have liver failure, liver transplantation is the only means to prolong their lives, the only effective means.
So if they don't, or if they can't wait for a suitable liver source, they'll all die in the short term.
[Explanation] When I heard the news, considering that the family was poor and the operation was difficult, everyone around me was persuading Ms. Chen to give up, but as a mother, she was unwilling to compromise.
[Concurrent] Ms. Chen (pseudonym), mother of children receiving organ donation
He is so young, and I am her mother. If I give up on him, knowing that he still has a chance to survive, but I don't fight for it, I will definitely regret it later.
[Explanation] Ms. Chen brought Cong Cong around to seek medical treatment alone.
Fortunately, on February 19 this year, Ms. Chen received news from the liver transplant team of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, and Cong Cong waited for a matching liver source.
[Explanation] After 15 hours, the split-type liver transplantation performed by the team of Professor Liu Chao from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University for Cong Cong and Ms. Wang was successfully completed.
According to Liu Chao, split-type liver transplantation requires doctors to be very familiar with the anatomical structure and to locate them accurately, so as to ensure that the "divided into two" liver retains important blood vessels and bile ducts.
[Concurrent] Liu Chao, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
Therefore, an accurate assessment of liver function and anatomy is required before surgery, and there is also a delicate operation for surgery, so the requirements are indeed relatively high.
It should be said that in the future, we will try our best to split everything that is eligible for splitting, because the shortage of liver donors is an eternal problem.
Many parents may be worried about long-term survival, so let me tell you that as long as the operation is successful, the patient can survive for a long time after regular follow-up examinations and taking anti-rejection drugs.
[Explanation] This successful split liver transplant has brought the fate of the three mothers together.
According to reports, the donor of this liver is also a young mother. After her unexpected death, her family decided to donate her heart, liver, kidneys and corneas after careful consideration, and successfully treated 5 patients with organ failure, allowing 2 This patient regained her sight, which also allowed her life to continue in another way.
[Concurrent] Ms. Wang, a patient who received organ donation
In the end, you can see that he is also very spiritual, and I am also very spiritual.
We are all grateful to the liver donor, and also to the team at this hospital, for giving us a whole new chance to survive.
[Concurrent] Ms. Chen (pseudonym), mother of children receiving organ donation
I'm really happy to see him getting better day by day, and then his skin and eyes have turned white and he's no longer a "minion".
Thanks to the donors for their great love, thank you for your help, and let the child be "reborn", thank you.
(Reported by He Junjie, Cai Minjie, Zou Siyao, Guangzhou)
Responsible editor: [Bian Liqun]