HYDERABAD: An eight-year-old child with a rare genetic disorder ‘Alagille Syndrome’ was successfully treated with a liver transplant in a city-based hospital. The child was only 12kg and 105cm. His actual weight should be about 28kg.
Alagille Syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder seen in less than one in a lakh births. In this, bile ducts (canal system) inside the liver does not develop, so the bile accumulates in the liver and the blood. This leads to jaundice, severe itching and liver failure.
“The child was very frail which made him an extremely high risk case for transplantation. His father came forward to donate a part of his liver to his son. It was a very difficult operation as the portal vein that supplies the liver was blocked. Needing multiple revisions,” said Dr R Phani Krishna, transplant surgeon, Pace Hospitals.” Six weeks postoperatively, he is free from itching and jaundice,” said Dr Govind Verma, chief hepatologist. The child has gained 1kg.
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