Domino transplant at the Polyclinic of Milan: one liver saves two people
A marathon operation lasting 18 hours: a young man with a rare disease receives an organ from a donor and gives his to another patient.
Gianluca has a rare genetic disease that forced him, at only 27, to undergo a liver transplant. And yet, his liver would work perfectly in another person and could save their life. The solution, which is as simple to imagine as it is complex to put into practice, was “
domino transplantation“: once
a donor had been found for
Gianluca, all that was needed was to find another patient that he could donate his organ to, thereby saving two lives with one liver. And that is exactly what