A girl under the age of six suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy became the youngest person ever to receive a heart transplant in Japan on Friday at Osaka University Hospital. At a press conference after the surgery, the hospital’s deputy director, Yoshiki Sawa, said the girl’s new heart was operating as it should, and that the girl is expected to be able to go home in a few months. The hospital said that upon hearing their daughter was in “extremely good condition” after the surgery, the parents thanked the doctors who had performed the operation. The girl’s exact age has not yet been released, but previously the youngest person to receive a heart transplant was an eight-year-old boy, who received a heart from a twenty-year-old woman in the year 2000.
In another first for Japan, the donor was a six-year-old boy who had been declared legally brain dead at Toyama University Hospital in Toyama city. Three surgical teams, one of which was from Osaka University hospital, extracted the heart, liver, and kidneys from a boy who had been suffering from a brain disorder; the declaration was made on Thursday, and the extraction began Friday morning. The boy’s family had consented to the removal of his heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, kidneys and small intestine, but the doctors were unable to extract the lungs, pancreas and small intestine due to medical issues.
Read more: http://japandailypress.com/heart-transplant-performed-on-girl-under-6-a-first-for-japan-164421
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