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Written by: Li Enci
2020-11-13 18:19
Last update date: 2020-11-13 18:20
Cheng Ruyan, a 20-year-old city university student, unfortunately suffered from acute liver failure and severe cerebral edema. She was admitted to the Intensive Treatment Department of Queen Mary Hospital.
Chen Zhiren, her attending doctor and clinical associate professor of the Liver Transplantation Group of the University of Hong Kong, said that Ruyan was found to have died of brainstem clinically this (13th) afternoon, but because of her anesthetic power, the hospital will arrange another brain scan for her tonight Check to confirm the situation.
Zheng Ruyan, a 20-year-old City University female student who was diagnosed with acute liver failure earlier this month, is still in a coma in the intensive care unit of Queen Mary Hospital.
Chen Zhiren, the attending doctor and clinical associate professor of the liver transplantation group of the University of Hong Kong, said that Ruyan had severe brain edema a few days ago and was no longer suitable for transplantation. A clinical cerebrovascular chart examination revealed that the brainstem died this afternoon.
However, because the anesthetic is not strong enough, it may affect the brain condition, so the results of this examination are not accurate, "but it is clinically (brain stem death), it is very likely to be true." The hospital will be like this tonight Yan arranges a brain scan to confirm the situation.
Chen Zhiren said frankly that the death of the brainstem "simply said is already dead." She may be pulled out in the next few days.
Chen Zhiren also revealed that in the past few days, he has been receiving calls from interested citizens saying that he is willing to donate livers for Ruyan, but no suitable live liver or cadaver liver has yet appeared.
Chen Zhiren, deputy director of the Liver Transplant Center of Queen Mary Hospital.
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Zheng Ruyan felt dizzy in the supermarket in July this year, but did not seek medical attention at that time.
By the end of September, she started to have a persistent high fever and lymphatic enlargement. She was admitted to Tsuen Wan Yan Chai Hospital last month, and then transferred to Queen Mary Hospital.
She was diagnosed with acute liver failure at the beginning of this month. She became unconscious on the 3rd; hallucinations appeared on the 4th; she fell into a semi-coma in the early morning of the 10th, and her relatives and friends appealed to the outside world to donate livers.
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