Sino-Singapore Online, April 13 (Chen Jing, Yuan Huiyun) Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine disclosed on the 13th that the Xia Qiang team of liver surgery at the hospital successfully completed a patient with liver coma due to acute drug-induced liver damage Liver transplant surgery. Since then, half of his son's liver has successfully settled in his mother's body.
According to the hospital, the patient with acute severe liver failure has recovered and is recovering, and his son has been discharged.
The patient is 55 years old this year and took several cold and stomach medicines on his own due to a cold and stomach upset a few weeks ago, leading to acute liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy and hepatic coma. On April 4, the woman's general condition gradually deteriorated, and her life was suspended. When she was transferred to Renji Hospital in an emergency, she was comatose.
It is reported that considering all aspects, the ethics committee and the expert group finally selected the son as the donor of the liver transplant. The liver surgery team raced against time and completed all preparations within 24 hours, creating a miracle of life.
The operation must first ensure the safety of a healthy liver donor (son). Photo courtesy of Renji Hospital
The liver surgery team performed a three-dimensional reconstruction of the patient's son's liver, blood vessels, and biliary tract, analyzed a variety of donor liver removal options, and finally determined the donor's right liver to be transplanted.
It is reported that the donor operation took 6 hours and the recipient operation took 9 hours. During the operation, the doctor cut the right half of his son's liver as a donor liver, which was nearly 800 grams, about 60% of his son's original liver. Dr. Xia Qiang, chief surgeon, secretary of the Party Committee of Renji Hospital, and director of the Department of Liver Surgery, said that the right half of the liver is difficult to remove. The operation must first ensure the safety of a healthy liver donor (son); In normal life and work, it is necessary to ensure that the recipient patients can get enough liver tissue to metabolize waste. Xia Qiang bluntly stated that the recipient was in a state of hepatic coma before surgery, and successful surgery does not mean that the patient will be rescued.
On the first day after surgery, the mother and son had good liver function and no rejection. Five days after the operation, the son was discharged from the hospital and the recipient was transferred to the general ward. The patient's son said: "Mom took me to this world, giving me love and warmth. This world is very beautiful, I want my mother to continue to accompany me to see this world!"
Mao Yimin, a professor in the Department of Gastroenterology at Renji Hospital and the head of the pharmacological liver disease group of the Hepatology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, said that in recent years, the incidence of liver failure caused by Chinese drugs has been on the rise. During the outbreak of New Coronary Pneumonia, because of panic and anxiety, some people did not dare to go to the hospital for symptoms. It is absolutely undesirable to take medicine for self-diagnosis of a cold. He pointed out that once a cold symptom such as fever or cough occurs, he should go to a regular hospital in time for a clear diagnosis, and never take self-diagnosis and medication. (Finish)