For the girl, the transplant was the only hope: after a year of dialysis, the kidney had stopped responding to treatment. Green light from the surveillance magistrate
BARI. A detained father donated a kidney to his 12-year-old daughter with end-stage renal failure. This was announced by the Policlinico di Bari, where the kidney transplant from living was performed, after the regional transplant center acquired the authorization of the surveillance magistrate, following the ascertained compatibility of the father. “The transplant was successfully performed by the team of Professor Michele Battaglia, the little patient is well and is under periodic observation of the pediatric nephrology ward”, let the Bari Polyclinic know.
After a year of dialysis, the girl’s kidney stopped responding and the only treatment that could have saved her was a transplant. The decision was authorized by the surveillance magistrate also following all the medical assessments that have seen urologists, nephrologists, immunologists, clinical pathologists, psychologists, imaging experts, infectious diseases, anesthetists-resuscitators in the field.
“I thank all those who have given a second life to my daughter, and my husband, to whom we cannot be close,” are the first words of the 12-year-old’s mother. The gesture of a father, underlined the coordinator of the regional transplant center, Loreto Gesualdo, “is matched by our great commitment to make possible a gift that has overcome all obstacles and barriers”.
The post-operative phase, the doctors explain, has kept everyone particularly apprehensive, but “after weeks we continue to record the complete functional recovery of the kidney and we are happy to have returned to the baby the normality that every child deserves”.
Behind every organ transplant there are stories of great humanity, but this has particularly affected the doctors involved. Because, they now say, “the smile returned to this family encourages us to go ahead with the living kidney transplant program”.
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