Mumbai: A two-and-a-half-year-old boy became the youngest liver recipient as he suffered from a rare life taking disorder. The kid’s mother donated a part of her liver to save the child.
Shriraj Jedhe had an abnormally large abdomen at the age of five months, his mother Gayatri Jedhe said. Medical reports claimed that his liver had fluid accumulated in it and he was immediately refereed to Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for children.
Within three weeks, doctors diagnosed him with Budd-Chiari syndrome, a disease in which the veins of the liver get blocked due to blood clots. This results in fluid congestion in the liver, said doctors.
“We initially put him on blood-thinners to dissolve the clots in his liver. After which he was on a follow-up for nearly two years,” said Dr Saista Amin, a consultant paediatrician at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri, where Jadhe underwent the life-saving liver transplant. “However, early this year, he developed liver cirrhosis [chronic liver damage] and was going into liver failure. The only option left was a liver transplant.”
Dr Vinay Kumaran, the head of transplant surgery at the hospital, said nearly 80% of Jedhe’s liver had lost its function, owing to his condition.
