Girl given new heart, liver
NZPA-AP Pittsburgh A girl, aged six, had received a heart and liver in a 16-hour double transplant believed to be the first of its kind, doctors said yesterday. “It’s a very important case, not only for the child but because of the amount of information obtained from it,” said Dr Thomas Starzl, a liver transplant pioneer who removed the donor organs from a child in the north-east United States.
“This is a first,” he said yesterday.
Stormie Jones, of Texas, entered surgery at a chil-
dren’s hospital on Tuesday. Two transplant teams headed by Dr Henry Bahnson first replaced her heart and then her liver. She was in a critical condition after the surgery. Stormie, who had waited 44 days in the hospital for the transplant, would have died without it, doctors said. Abnormally high cholesterol levels in her blood had damaged her heart and liver, and her heart would not have withstood the shock of liver transplant surgery, said a hospital spokesman. She had previously undergone double heart bypass surgery.
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