LIVER RE-TRANSPLANT IN INDIA

A terminally ill lawyer has been brought back from the jaws of death, thanks to two rare gifts by his sons. Each son donated half a
liver to the man in what is claimed to be the country's first successful re-transplant using living donor liver.

Fifty-four-year-old Suman Kapoor is now back to normal life after doctors at the capital's Gangaram Hospital conducted a second liver transplant on him, a year and a half after the first.

Kapoor's woes began in 2006, when he was diagnosed with cryptogenic cirrhosis (cirrhosis due to unidentified causes) and needed an immediate liver transplant. His younger son, 20-year-old Kanv, then donated the right half of his liver to save his father.

Though Kapoor made steady progress after the surgery, ill fate struck once again. His liver failed in December 2007 after getting infected with hepatitis E.

And this time, it was his elder son, Aayush, who immediately came forward as donor.

Dr A S Soin, head of liver transplantation at Gangaram, told TOI, "The re-transplant was conducted on January 9 and both Kapoor and Aayush did well after the 15-hour surgery. Today, all the three male members of the family are hale and hearty and have returned to normal life."

He added, "There is only 10% possibility that a transplanted liver would fail twice due to new infections. When Kapoor returned to the ICU fighting for his life in January 2008, I felt that the only option was a re-transplant, which had never been successfully done in India before. So, I sought opinions from my colleagues at two of the world's best transplant centres — UPMC, Pittsburgh, and King's College, London. They also agreed that a re-transplant was the only option."

SOURCE:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Sons_donate_half_a_liver_each_to_dad/articleshow/2886180.cms