Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, has successfully performed a rare liver transplantation surgery on a two-year-old from Khammam suffering from a rare type of cancer.
The boy D. Mahasen Datta suffered from a rare life-threatening liver malignancy called Hepatoblastoma and was presented to the Yashoda Hospital with recurrent chest infections, fever, poor growth and abdominal lump, informed the medical practitioners from the hospital, at a press conference here on Thursday.
Upon evaluation, he was found to have multiple lesions in the liver and further diagnosis confirmed Stage IV of the dreadful cancer. The cure comprising chemotherapy and transplantation was arrived at after discussions among a team of various specialists.
The kid’s mother Manasa came forth to donate the liver and after three cycles of chemotherapy between February and April, the boy was implanted with the left lateral lobe of his mother’s liver on May 26. The surgery lasted eight hours.
Chief liver transplant surgeon Bala Chandra Menon said that the boy will be able to lead normal life except for a few repercussions such as hypertension at a later age, provided he is given immunosuppressant medication for life.
Compared to a normal lifespan, his will come down by about two years.
The surgery cost Rs.15 lakh and the recurrent expenditure will amount to Rs.20,000 per month initially, but will taper down to less than Rs.5,000 eventually once the number of drugs are reduced, Dr. Menon informed.
Transplant surgeon Amardeep, chief anesthetist and intensivist Prem Kumar, Paediatrician T.P. Karthik, and medical oncologist Bharat Vaswani were part of the team.
