A specialized surgical team in the eastern province succeeded in transplanting two livers and a kidney for two brothers, in a 24-hour exchange transplant operation that was successfully conducted – All praises be to Allah.
Eastern Health Cluster said: Doctors of the Organ Transplant Center at King Fahd Specialist Hospital (OTC-KFSH) in Dammam performed an exchange transplant of the liver and kidneys of two sick brothers. The first is 7 years old, and the second is 12 years old, as the cases that they faced necessitated a great challenge in providing matching organs for them.
The surgical team said: The first case was of a child who needed a liver and kidneys, while her brother needed a liver, from two donors provided by the parents. The first is a liver donor and the other a kidney donor, while the two cases require transplantation of 3 organs, in a period that took between 6 to 8 hours for one operation. The team supervising the case confirmed that it was in a challenge with time due to possibility that the child's matching organs might not be available. A state that may lead to a deterioration in his condition, and ends up with transplantation of two organs - a liver and a kidney - instead of a liver only, but a donor was provided and the children were saved after matching checks with the child, and matching the rest of donors with the child and confirming that, and – thanks to Allah - the transplant process took place successfully.
It is worth noting that the Organ Transplant Center at King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam - one of the components of the Eastern Health Cluster - was able to perform 37 organ transplants for children, which varied between kidney and liver transplants, including 20 kidney transplants and 17 liver transplants in the past year 2022.