“Thanks to those who participated in our pain”
Twelve hours in the operating room to save, implanting the liver of a donor on one kidney, one 11-year-old Ukrainian girlaffected by a severe and rare malformation to the biliary tract against which two operations in his country had not given any results. It ended with a complex speech at Molinettehospital of the City of Health of Turin, a humanitarian mission launched in May by the Piedmont Region. Transplantation with the organ of a 16-year-old donor coming from the Bufalini di Cesena who died for a head trauma, was performed by connecting the hepatic portal vein with the kidney vein of the girl. Originally from the Donetsk region. In the past year she had been hospitalized several times for infections and her condition had worsened, with the urgent need for a transplant.
Last May A medical team was sent from the Piedmontese capital and the case of the little girl was evaluated, thanks to the advice of the Liver Transplant Center of Molinette, Renato Romagnoli, and the director of pediatric gastroenterology of the Regina Margherita hospital, Pierluigi Calvo. Hence the decision to take her to Italy, hospitalize her at Queen Margherita and put her on the waiting list for the transplant. After two months, a compatible liver arrived. The organ was divided into two parts according to the Split technique: the smallest, the left, was implanted in a newborn at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, while the largest part, the right, was transported to Turin. for the transplant from Romagnoli. “From a point of view it was a rather acrobatic intervention but we are very satisfied technicians. The liver works well about a week after the transplant – explains Romagnoli -. For the moment, no complications, the baby has been awakened and he resumed his duties and began to feed himself “.
“Parents are very happy and grateful – adds Romagnoli – they embrace us and understand two things: that Italy is an open country, that welcomes and gives and that allows a high level of care, because an intervention like this is at the forefront of the world. A fact has been made in the world and the children can be counted on the fingers of the hand. “The little girl just woke up said:” Not daddy yet what happened. “Even Olek can’t hide his happiness:” Now we are fine, but we were anxious “, she says. man, in Turin with his wife and two other children, aged 3 and 5.
He had agreed to donate organs Giada Penserini, the young woman from San Marino who died of injuries sustained in the tragic accident of 21 August last. Yesterday the funeral of the sixteen-year-old was held, in which there was avery high participation of citizenship. The girl’s family thanks all those who have shown their closeness.
“We wanted to welcome a thank you heartfelt to all those who have participated in our pain. – to impose Stefano, Emanuela and Mia – Especially all of these beautiful young people which is too often spoken of in a negative way. And that on this occasion, with their simple gestures of Love, they were a lesson to all of us adults “