Thursday, May 16, 2013

Russian doctors first patient transplanted intestine - RBC - RBC.Ru

In late February, the doctors of the Moscow Institute of Emergency Sklifosovsky conducted a unique operation to transplant the small intestine. But today they were able to claim that the donor organ caught on and side-effects have arisen. The patient is doing well and ready to be discharged, said “First Channel”.

According to surgeons, the patient was in the hospital for about a year, first in the search for a donor, and then in anticipation of a foreign body take hold in the body. “Already want to go back home soon, to the children,” – said Alexey Gadko. According to doctors, he was the first in Russia who successfully underwent transplantation of the small intestine.

known that the operation, which had dozens of specialists, lasted about nine o’clock, the rehabilitation period of almost 3 months. Today he can not walk alone and eat. Doctors say that the transplant of the small intestine – a complicated procedure, 90% of patients die within the first few days after it. This is due to the fact that the enteric infections than anywhere else in the body. Therefore, receiving a donor organ, the patient runs the risk of a double. Doctors have no choice but use of hard drugs, while respecting the balance: the immunity to fight, too.

“I think in the near future, we will learn how to grow your own ezihimalnyh of gut cells of the patient who needs this intestine transplant, and then the problems will disappear: transplanted, it is your immune system, consider its gut, from their same biological material” – the director of the Emergency Care im.N.V.Sklifosovskogo Anzor Khubutia.

May 16, 2013

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