Pakistani doctors have made a history by performing the first ever-successful liver transplant surgery in a private hospital at Lahore. In an operation that spanned over an arduous 16 hours, the patient's entire liver was extracted and then replaced by a half-cut liver of the donor.
The doctors said that both the patient and the donor presently left with half-cut livers which would naturally grow to full liver in three to six weeks' time, private TV reported. Doctors termed successful operation a landmark in the history of surgery in Pakistan.
Following the operation, the patient Salim Jahangir Muree, 38, resident of Kohlu city of Balochistan has been shifted to the intensive care unit. His younger brother Attaullah Khan, 27, who donated the liver for transplant was reported to be in a stable condition.
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