Mumbai: Nearly two decades after receiving a portion of his father’s liver as an 11-year-old due to a lack of deceased donors, a 30-year-old man has once again had to rely on a living family member for a second organ transplant. Top transplant specialists said on Wednesday that he has joined a small group of patients in the country to undergo a second liver transplant after living a long life with the first graft.
I was unconscious for four days and doctors advised us that an immediate transplant was required,” Shirke said. Doctors at Jaslok Hospital, where the surgery took place, said that the patient suffered from autoimmune cirrhosis. This patient was lucky,” said Dr Aabha Nagral, a liver transplant specialist at the hospital who was involved in the case.
But the numbers could not help Jitin Shirke, an Andheri resident who was placed on Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC) recipient list in mid-June. “My condition deteriorated within a couple of weeks of enlisting. Following an evaluation, his mother was deemed an eligible donor. “Deceased organ donors are still less and very few patients are fortunate enough to find an eligible living donor in their immediate family on such short notice.