An eight-year-old boy with an End-Stage Liver Disease (ESLD) got a new lease of life, thanks to his mother and the team of doctors who made the “impossible possible” at the Manipal Hospital in collaboration with the South Asian Liver Institute.
The boy, Sudheer, was suffering from chronic congenital liver disease with high sodium MELD (model for end-stage liver disease) score. He was severely unwell with high bilirubin and growth retardation.
Liver transplantation was inevitable for Sudheer, and the only suitable donor in his family was his mother, said doctors at a press conference held at Manipal Hospital on Tuesday.
