This is more than a typical patient success story; it's an inspiring account of a 6-month-old who overcame her medical condition ...

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Baby&#39;s Liver Transplant Journey to Recovery with Dr. Raghavendra CV

foreign [Music] foreign thanks hello everyone I am Dr raghavendra consultant liver transplant surgeon at narayana Health City Bangalore today I just want to share our success story and the happy story of our child which we operated humans back the child came in at the month of three months age when she was referred from one of the pediatricians from local bijapur and she was identified to have a biliary ataricia so initially when they turned up it was almost around nearly close to three months and we gave the options of ah either considering uh kasai's porto-antrostomy which is a biliary passage which is uh done in case of biliratory or a liver transplantation which will be a one shot solution in case of a progressive linearity so the the family was lost for follow-up after few days and then subsequently they appeared by around almost by around four four and after fifth month when they decided for liver transplantation so we did the workup of the father and the child father was found to be a suitable donor and the transplant was done in the month of May and now it is in the month of August they are going back after a complete this one evaluation of In the post-operative period where the liver function test everything has been found to be completely okay and she was there in the hospital for a few days around nearly for two weeks and subsequently once she was completely okay we discharged her by around the end of two weeks so she was under post operative follow-up for the subsequent next under two to three weeks and now they are good enough to go back to their Village and start a new living the main emphasis why we had to share this success story is the grit and the strength the family has and the child has to undergo the transplantation and to overcome this major surgery of a transplantation the financial issues were the first thing which we had to address because at that point of time the family came in saying that we don't have much of the resources to go ahead with the transplantation so we had to go through one of the government scheme under the BPL the below poverty line scheme subsequently we have to just even fundrise under the impact Guru so my sincere thanks to both the sectors the impact Guru they were able to offer a generous amount of nearly around 5.5 lakhs and the rest of the amount was adjusted with the BPL scheme and literally in the baby undermines the transplantation without not much of anything else which was spent from their hand whatever this amount which was spent was for the investigations and for the post-operative follow-up so that is an incredible success story which I would like to share across with the people and this has been very much possible other kids who are suffering from a liver disease or any adults who have been suffering from a liver disease so the with the government schemes and with the NGO organization being funding we can just make a huge difference in treating those patients okay coming to the transplantation of this child the child was underway intentionally to start with child was almost eventually when we when she came for the first follow-up she was almost around three kgs she was around 2.5 kgs at Birth and subsequently in the next three to four months she had just put another 0.5 kgs which was below our required estimated weight subsequently we just allowed to put on weight and meanwhile they had to make some arrangements with respect to the finances also and they were there was a delay in the decision making for a liver transplantation by the time when we took a decision to go ahead with the transplantation she was nearly around four four and a half kgs when we took her for the surgery it was almost around nearly five kgs subsequently the surgery we scheduled it and it was done in the month of May and the surgery was never an easy one to go ahead so the tiny vessels and the tiny structures it makes it even more difficult in the babies so we had to put on the left lateral segment of the donor which had been implanted and transplanted to the child with a bilirious here the surgery lasted for almost around 14 hours the not much of a blood transfusion was required during the surgery subsequently the child was shifted onto the Pediatric ICU I had to extend a wholehearted thanks to our picu team from Dr Anil sapare and Dr Sagar hiramat for their extended supports and all their fellows and the rest of the other thing is the whole team of ours the liver transplantation the whole team came forward and it was a teamwork which made it a big success and more important is about the financial arrangements from the impact Guru and even from the government scheme was very much instrumental with the BPL scheme in getting it through and uh wholehearted thanks to all of them who are behind this success story so essentially after the nearly around three weeks of post-operative follow-up now they are good enough to go back to their Village and this is a success story which we want to share because it is of a multiple uh things which we need to learn and share across one is the the grit and the strength and the determination of the family to overcome the issues because normally in a kid of this age many parents May forego and say that we don't require a transplantation we will find we'll try for another child but in this case the family stood behind the child and they took a decision major decision to undergo a liver transplantation and they went ahead with the liver transplantation as a single shot rather than not with the Kasai Spoto androstomy the second thing is about the finances which we got it from support from the multiple organizations a huge thanks for everyone the whole of the picu team who gave their extended wholehearted support and our whole team of doctors who have been behind in integrating this child so a big thanks to everyone

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