A team of 30 doctors performed the first transplant of liver from a dead person this year at the National Clinical Hospital. Head of the Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery Section Adrian Hotineanu has told IPN that the beneficiary of the transplant is a woman aged 60, who was diagnosed with terminal Hepatitis B.
The doctor said the operation lasted for almost nine hours. The patient will be under intensive care for about a month. The dynamics are positive and the woman was disconnected from the ventilator. This is the seventh transplant of liver from a dead person so far, besides the other seven operations to transplant liver from living persons.
Adrian Hotineanu also said that 70 patients with terminal hepatic cirrhosis are waiting for a healthy liver. Fifteen liver transplant surgeries are to be performed this year, but everything depends on financing. An operation costs about 1 million lei. The money is allocated from the state budget.
