South African child undergoes liver transplant for biliary atresia
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December 23, 2020 01:09 IST
Doctors at Mumbai’s Global Hospital used minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery technique for hepatectomy on one-year-old
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Hale and hearty: Post-surgery, Nayum having a gala time with his father at Global Hospital in Mumbai.
Doctors at Mumbai’s Global Hospital used minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery technique for hepatectomy on one-year-old
For a slightly more than one-year-old Nayum from South Africa, the battle against a congenital condition called biliary atresia began soon after his birth.
A few days after he was born to Wazir Khan and Vasila Saiyed in October last year, Nayum was diagnosed with jaundice. “Since jaundice is very common in newborns, we started treating him for that. It was when he became two-month-old that doctors found out about his condition,” Ms. Saiyed, who also has a seven-year-old daughter and a four-