New organs have been transplanted into a 10-year-old boy with a genetic condition.
The world's first lung and liver transplant from living donors has been performed in Kyoto.
The operation was required for a 10-year-old boy with a genetic disease. Doctors diagnosed him with congenital dyskeratosis. At the age of two, he developed aplastic anemia, and at the age of four, he received a bone marrow transplant from his sister.
Subsequently, the boy developed cirrhosis of the liver and because of the disease, the arteries and veins of the lungs became connected. The child began to breathe with difficulty.
Then doctors decided to transplant two organs at once - lungs and liver. As The Japan Times reports, he was transplanted with part of his parents' lungs and part of his grandfather's liver.
It was the world's first operation in which a patient is transplanted two organs from living donors.
After several months, the child recovered and returned home, as did his relatives.
"We were able to open up a new therapeutic option for patients," said Hiroshi Date, a professor at the university hospital who performed the surgery.
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