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August 10, 2021Her story begins when he was 2 months old. The child is hospitalized for end-stage renal failure. The baby is given a kidney transplant. But things don't go well, so the health workers of the city of Turin operated on the little boy, who is now 4 years old, with a technique never used on such a young patient and who had already undergone a liver transplant.
First technique in the world at the pediatric level.
The new kidney was re-transplanted attached to the spleen vein inside the pancreas towards the liver, produced urine already in the operating room, without suffering from the liver transplanted 3 years earlier.
After only 2 days, and 4 years always in the hospital, the child is now feeding and playing.