Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: An 8-year-old girl from Bihar underwent a life saving liver transplant procedure at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals after being diagnosed with rare Wilson’s disease- a genetic disorder in which excess copper builds up in the body.
The 8-year-old Anshika was admitted to Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals on the evening of 25th March in a state of coma. Previously she was being treated at another hospital where her condition had deteriorated.
At Apollo she was admitted under the supervision of Dr Anupam Sibal, Group Medical Director, Senior Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Apollo Hospitals Group along with his team including Dr Smita Malhotra and Dr Karunesh Kumar (Consultants, Paediatric Gastroenterology) and Dr Neerav Goyal, Senior Consultant, Liver Transplant, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals along with Dr Arun V, Dr Varun M, Dr Pradeep Kumar (Consultants, Liver Transplant) and Dr Raman R (Anaesthetist).
The child was immediately put on a ventilator and advised a liver transplant. She was parallel put on dialysis and plasma exchange therapy to remove copper and buy time for a pre-transplant evaluation. Due to non-availability of the same or compatible blood group donor, an ABO-incompatible emergency live donor liver transplant was planned, with the child’s mother as the donor.
Thirty-one hours after admission, on 27th March, a liver transplant was started. Two days later she was removed from a ventilator, and she then regained consciousness. The child was discharged on 12th April, post-operative day 17.
Speaking about this life saving transplantation, Dr Anupam Sibal said this was an exceptionally rare case where a living related liver transplant was performed within 31 hours of admission.
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