New Delhi: For the First time in North India, Doctors at Fortis Escorts, Okhla, New Delhi, successfully conducted a challenging auto liver transplant on a 35-year-old female patient from Kyrgyzstan. .
In an auto liver transplant, the liver is removed from the body and kept in a preservative solution, after the diseased part is removed, damaged veins are reconstructed and re-implanted in the body.
The woman was diagnosed with Echinococcosis Multilocularis, a parasitic infection that had damaged 75 per cent of her liver. The damaged part of her liver was removed and replaced by a healthy part of her liver.