First double transplant with intestinal microbiota and liver - Medicine

2024-02-17T17:00:42.588Z

Highlights: First double transplant with intestinal microbiota and liver - Medicine. For the first time in the world, a 56-year-old man, suffering from polycystic disease with liver and kidney involvement since birth, was saved with a sequential transplant of fecal microbiota and then liver. A clinical case, with a process lasting 120 days, has already received recognition from the international scientific literature, having been published in the journal Transplant Infectious Disease. The man is now convalescing at home and is undergoing nutritional and motor recovery.

For the first time in the world, a 56-year-old man, suffering from polycystic disease with liver and kidney involvement since birth, was saved with a sequential transplant of fecal microbiota and then liver, at the Molinette hospital in Turin in collaboration... (HANDLE)