A team of proficient Indian doctors performed a rare and complex type of liver transplant in a one-year-old girl using a specialized surgical technique. The doctors opted for this novel surgical technique of surgery owing to the small size of the child’s vein and the unavailability of a donor vein. This case is rare because, 1/8th of the liver has been used along with cow vein. A team of doctors at a hospital in Gurugram conducted a rare liver transplant of a one-year-old girl from Saudi Arabia using a bovine jugular vein to provide blood circulation to the new liver.
She weighed around 5.2 kg and was suffering from Biliary Atresia. She was very weak due to her liver condition and the doctors said that they had to perform this kind of transplant as cadaver vein donation is not available in India. This is the first liver transplant in the world in which a cow’s vein has been used to…
