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Patient recovering after rare transplant
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A HOSPITAL in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province has successfully performed a rare and difficult small intestine transplant with the assistance of a robot.
More than two weeks after the operation, the patient, 29-year-old Yang Lin, is recovering, said Zhao Qingchuan, deputy head of the Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases affiliated to the Forth Military Medical University in Xi’an, the provincial capital.
The hospital claimed it as the world’s first small intestine transplant involving a robotic device.
During surgery, the robot, controlled by the doctor, inserted its arms into several small holes cut into the abdomen of 53-year-old Yang Xiaoming to take out a 1.8-meter section of his small intestine, surgeon Wu Guosheng said.
“It leaves a much smaller cut on the donor’s abdomen and is more conducive to his or her recovery after surgery,” Wu said.
The piece was transplanted into his son Yang Lin, who had most of his own small intestine removed due to severe intestinal failure. The small intestine of a healthy person is 6 to 7 meters long, while young Yang’s was just 20 centimeters.
The small intestine transplant operation is deemed one of the most challenging of all organ transplants, Zhao said.
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