Summary:
more-inRyan, a four-month-old infant from Tanzania who had come to India a month-and-a-half ago, is the youngest baby in western India to undergo liver transplant. An Indian friend who is settled in Tanzania had got her 18-year-old son treated for a liver ailment at Navi Mumbai Apollo and got a liver transplant done. According to Dr.
Sibal, around 2,500 children in India need a liver transplant every year, of whom only 150 get it done. It was too late for surgical correction, and it was decided to go in for a life-saving liver transplant,” said Dr.
Darius F.
Mirza, Head, HPB & Multi-Organ Transplant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai. “The delay in detection of the condition has led to extensive damage to the infant’s liver with the development of life-threatening liver failure..