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A two-year-old girl and a 50-year-old woman share the liver of one donator after a successful split liver transplantation that was carried out by Costa Rican physicians in two hospitals in the country.
A split liver transplantation involves taking the liver of a donor and dividing it to be transplanted into two patients.
This procedure, performed two weeks ago (May 23), was the first of its kind to be done in the country and it has only been done successfully in prestigious medical centers with more experience in the procedure as is the case of hospitals in France and United Kingdom.
“Managing to achieve that both segments of the liver had the sufficient quality and maintained the anatomic and functional integrity to work for each of the patients at the same time, requires technical and scientific advanced surgery techniques as well as a complex hospital logistic planned to the smallest detail”, explained the team of physicians during a press conference.
“Both, the child and the adult underwent surgery simultaneously in two different hospitals (Children’s Hospital and Mexico Hospital), the surgeons were divided in two groups; which reflects the institutional capacity to coordinate an event of this nature and the experience of the team involved”.
The patients are recovering satisfactorily and the livers are working properly.
In total close to 100 people were involved in the procedures, the surgery for the child lasted 4.5 hours, while the surgery for the adult woman took a total 6.5 hours.
