In Lviv, doctors performed two complex transplants on a 13-year-old girl from Kharkiv: she received a kidney from her father and part of a liver from her mother. This is only the second such case in Ukraine.
According to the Center of Transplantology of the First Medical Association of Lviv, the patient, Mariia Momot, was born with a rare genetic condition — Caroli syndrome combined with polycystic kidney disease.
Her kidneys failed first, so her father became the donor. Lviv specialists performed the kidney transplant on their own.
However, in November last year, the girl’s condition sharply deteriorated — she developed esophageal bleeding caused by portal hypertension. After being stabilized in Kharkiv, she was urgently transported to Lviv, where a liver transplant became her only chance of survival.
Her mother agreed to become the liver donor. Specialists from the Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology were involved in the procedure.
During the operation, doctors removed the left lobe of the liver together with the left gastric artery to ensure proper vascular parameters for transplantation. The surgery was successful.
The postoperative period was also challenging, but the girl recovered and has already been discharged from the hospital. She is expected to return to Kharkiv soon.