Experimental liver surgery may save baby’s life - Canada
Calgary Herald | BY JAMIE KOMARNICKI
Procedure performed at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary
A three-month-old Winnipeg girl has become the first patient in Canada to receive an experimental and potentially life-saving therapy. Physicians at Alberta Children’s Hospital, led by medical geneticist Dr. Aneal Khan, completed a series of liver cell transplants earlier this month on Nazdana Jan. Photograph by: Supplied , Calgary Herald
CALGARY â€" The incision, no more than half a pinky long, is just above baby Nazdana Jan’s belly button.
In an experimental procedure performed in Calgary just weeks ago, medical experts inserted an intravenous line through the incision and deep into a blood vessel going straight into the infant’s tiny liver.
Then, over a series of six days, the team infused roughly 10 million transplant cells directly into the organ.
The surgery â€" the first of its kind in Canada â€" may just have saved the Winnipeg baby’s life.
“Of course I was a little bit worried, but not that much,†said her father, Jouhar Ali, in an interview at the Alberta Children’s Hospital on Thursday.
“The result is in front of us: she is doing very well.â€
Nazdana, born in August, has a urea cycle disorder. The rare genetic disease causes ammonia to build up in the body, which can lead to brain damage and death if untreated. About 50 babies are born each year with the disorder in Canada.
The condition is incurable.
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Procedure performed at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary
A three-month-old Winnipeg girl has become the first patient in Canada to receive an experimental and potentially life-saving therapy. Physicians at Alberta Children’s Hospital, led by medical geneticist Dr. Aneal Khan, completed a series of liver cell transplants earlier this month on Nazdana Jan. Photograph by: Supplied , Calgary Herald
CALGARY â€" The incision, no more than half a pinky long, is just above baby Nazdana Jan’s belly button.
In an experimental procedure performed in Calgary just weeks ago, medical experts inserted an intravenous line through the incision and deep into a blood vessel going straight into the infant’s tiny liver.
Then, over a series of six days, the team infused roughly 10 million transplant cells directly into the organ.
The surgery â€" the first of its kind in Canada â€" may just have saved the Winnipeg baby’s life.
“Of course I was a little bit worried, but not that much,†said her father, Jouhar Ali, in an interview at the Alberta Children’s Hospital on Thursday.
“The result is in front of us: she is doing very well.â€
Nazdana, born in August, has a urea cycle disorder. The rare genetic disease causes ammonia to build up in the body, which can lead to brain damage and death if untreated. About 50 babies are born each year with the disorder in Canada.
The condition is incurable.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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