Liver transplantation is currently the only treatment available for the severe liver disease PSC. Now, however, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and.
Scientists have used a technique to grow bile duct organoids - often referred to as 'mini-organs' - in the lab and shown that these can be used to repair.
Nine-month-old child from Indonesia undergoes critical liver transplant in Delhi
She was admitted to the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals with swelling in the abdomen and progressively worsening jaundice that was causing scarring of the liver.
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NEW DELHI: A nine-month-old girl from Indonesia became the first from the country to undergo a lifesaving liver transplant after suffering from Biliary Atresia, an end stage liver disease, claimed the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in the city.
She was referred from Indonesia with liver failure for a transplant. Baby Grace was detected with biliary atresia an inflammation in the bile ducts that hampers liver function of infants after developing jaundice from the third day of her birth. In the initial months, she received treatment in Indonesia but as her condition continuously deteriorated, she was referred to India for a liver transplant.
Ionic liquid formulation kills cancer cells, allows uniform distribution of chemotherapy to tumors
A Mayo Clinic team, led by Rahmi Oklu, M.D., Ph.D., a vascular and interventional radiologist at Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with Samir Mitragotri, Ph.D., of Harvard University, report the development of a new ionic liquid formulation that killed cancer cells and allowed uniform distribution of a chemotherapy drug into liver tumors and other solid tumors in the lab.
This discovery could solve a problem that has long plagued drug delivery to tumors and provide new hope to patients with liver cancer awaiting a liver transplant. The preclinical study results are published in
9-Month-Old Iraqi Boy Undergoes Successful Liver Transplant In Delhi 9-Month-Old Iraqi Boy Undergoes Successful Liver Transplant In Delhi Hamad s mother donated a part of her liver to save her son s life who was born after three kids.
Hamad was discharged from the hospital on January 26. (Representational)
New Delhi:
A nine-month-old boy from Iraq got a new lease of life after undergoing liver transplant at a hospital in Delhi.
Such a transplant is considered risky among those aged less than one year. However, doctors of Manipal Hospitals in New Delhi took up the challenge and performed the nine-hour-long surgery on Ali Hamad on January 3.