A Yuma girl might soon be coming home after being discharged Wednesday from a Tucson hospital following a rare procedure.
Vanessa Negrete, a 26-year-old Yuma resident, donated a section of her liver to her 1-year-old daughter, Aliyah Negrete.
Surgeons performed Arizona's first adult-to-child living donor liver transplant March 20 at the University of Arizona Medical Center–University Campus in Tucson.
Vanessa and Aliyah underwent simultaneous operations. The hospital released Vanessa a week after the surgery.
The Negrete family, which includes father, Ivan, will be staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Tucson anywhere from a couple of weeks to a month, said Jo Marie Gellerman, UA Department of Surgery spokeswoman.
At age 2 months, Aliyah was diagnosed with a congenital condition called biliary atresia that affects the liver's ability to secret bile, causing cirrhosis and jaundice.
This rare and incurable condition affecting newborns is neither hereditary nor caused by anything that occurs during pregnancy. It strikes one out of every 10,000 to 15,000 births and is the leading reason for liver transplants in children, according to the UA Department of Surgery.
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