At the Clinical Hospital in Croatia, 12 organ transplants were performed on seven recipients in the last week, including the first transplant of five organs in one patient.
That patient received a stomach, small and large intestines, liver, and pancreas.
The patient who received five organs was born in 1969, is being treated and his condition will be monitored for weeks by a team of doctors: anesthesiologists, surgeons, internists, gastroenterologists, nephrologists, pathologists and radiologists.
He suffers from thrombophilia, which left him with a stomach full of thick blood vessels and at least one internal bleed a day, so the only option was a transplant. This operation was also a retransplantation as the patient had already received a liver in 2023.
"This is the success of the whole team. When the transplant starts, you don't have much time. All of us, from the drivers who transported the organs from Osijek to the surgeons, had to be perfectly coordinated. We managed to do everything in less than six hours," said Stipslav Jadrijević, the leader of the team that performed the operation three days ago./abcnews.al
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