"There is a story, in the record year that has just ended with 123 organ transplants, which has thrilled everyone".
Thus begins the story that the Policlinico di Bari makes of a living kidney transplant to save a 12-year-old girl from terminal renal failure.
The donor was his father, who was held in prison.
The transplant was performed by the team of Professor Michele Battaglia, the little patient is well and is under periodic observation in the pediatric nephrology department. Renal failure was diagnosed at the Giovanni XXIII Children's Hospital by Dr. Mario Giordano. After a year of dialysis, the child's kidney had stopped responding and the only treatment that could have saved her was a transplant. With the authorization of the removal for the purpose of transplantation from the 'third commission' and from the surveillance magistrate, the detained father was able to donate the organ to his daughter.
"This case has involved and committed us a lot. The great commitment of the regional transplant center has been matched to the beautiful act of paternal love to make possible a gift that has overcome all obstacles and barriers to save the little girl", comments the coordinator of the center. regional transplants, Loreto Gesualdo. "Behind every organ transplant there are stories of great humanity - adds the director general of the Bari Polyclinic, Giovanni Migliore -. The smile returned to this family encourages us to go ahead with the kidney transplant program for living, especially in this one. period in which Covid is engaging hospitals with greater organizational efforts ".
In a video message, the mother thanked the Polyclinic for having "given a second life to my daughter" and her husband "to whom we cannot be close".
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