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| Anduel hugging his 5-year-old son after surgery |
Italian doctors first performed lung transplants from a living donor. A complicated surgery that took place with Sukays on January 17 at Pope John XXIII Hospital in Bergamo.
The lung donor is called Anduel, a 34-year-old Albanian who donated one of his lungs to his 5-year-old son, Italian media reports.
The child came out of the hospital last week as he could breathe again thanks to his lungs donated by his father, just over a month after surgery.
The child went out of the hospital last week after breathing again thanks to his lungs donated by his father, just over a month after surgery. The lung transplant from a living donor, the first in Italy for this body, took place on Tuesday, January 17 in Pope John XXIII in Bergamo.
The lung donor is called Anduel. He is a 34-year-old Albanian and is the father of a 5-year-old son. Anduel's wife, Ornéla, moved to Italy in the summer of 2018, along with her one-year-old child. A few months after their arrival, their father joined them after leaving his job as a construction engineer in Albania.
One year after their arrival in Italy, Mario's parents took their son to Meyer Hospital in Florence after the emergence of health problems. The baby was diagnosed with thalassemia or Mediterranean anemia, a blood disorder.
In the summer of 2021, the child performed a marrow transplant operation, which was also donated by his father.
The transfer of the parent's immune system to the child generates the so-called graphite disease against the host, a severe complication that is observed in patients undergoing allogeneic transplantation. A complex immune reaction, where the cells transplanted by the donor "attack" the recipient's organs and tissues, which the new immune system fails to recognize as its own. The disease damaged the lungs to the point that the child was completely losing the ability to breathe independently. In these conditions, there was no hope for the child to survive except a lung transplant. Meyer hospital specialists in Florence contacted Bergamo Hospital to put the child on the list of people for a lung transplant.