7-month-old child gets a liver transplant in rare surgery
02:03AM Sat 5 Nov, 2016
HYDERABAD: Weighing just 5.5 kg, P Nitish, at the age of 7 months and 13 days, is one of the youngest in India to undergo liver transplant surgery.
Nitish has a congenital medical condition called biliary atresia. A team of doctors led by Dr Manish C Varma, chief transplant surgeon at Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, performed the rare surgery last month by transplanting a small part of his father P Nagarjuna's liver in him.
Known to affect 1 in 10,000-15,000 newborns, the surgery costs Rs 25 lakh. Nagarjuna and his wife Durga Prashanti, from West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, raised the sum various sources, including Rs 8 lakh from Tollywood actor Allu Arjun.
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