He was Bangladeshi, he was 38 years old and he had left his country on foot, crossing part of the Middle East and the Balkans, to arrive in Lombardy a year ago, where he however discovered he had a serious pathology from which he died.
Thanks to her organs, transplanted at the Niguarda hospital which reports it, a 50-year-old woman who suffers from a rare disease which forced her to dialysis and had caused her liver to weigh more than 10 kilograms, will be able to have a life as normal as possible.
This was thanks to a double operation during which the liver and a kidney of the deceased migrant were transplanted.
Zaidane (fictitious name provided by Niguarda) had found a job and a new life, but he did not know that he had severe hypertension which caused a large cerebral hemorrhage which put him in a deep irreversible coma.
It wasn't easy to track down her family, but the doctors at the Milanese hospital managed to contact her sister back home and help her overcome the bureaucracy and difficulties of the trip.
She joined her brother and, together with the rest of the family, gave consent to have his organs removed.
In the same days Paola (another fictitious name), 50 years old, was hospitalized, suffering from a rare but devastating disease: hepatorenal polycystosis, due to which she lost her right kidney and which forced her to dialysis 3 times a week .
Her liver, damaged by the pathology, weighed over 10 kg.
"It was Zaidane's liver and kidney that saved the patient's life - explains Luciano De Carlis, director of General Surgery and Transplants at Niguarda - because their compatibility was perfect".
Before her, the liver was transplanted and after 52 hours the kidney was also transplanted, and both operations were successful.
"Now Paola is well, she has already left intensive care and will soon be able to return to everyday life, but above all she will no longer have to resort to dialysis", concludes Niguarda.
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