New York: A nine-year-old girl is making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery on Sunday, days after surgeons transplanted six of her organs in a groundbreaking medical procedure.
The surgery performed last Tuesday on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine and spleen.
The surgery was performed in Boston, Massachusetts at Children's Hospital, one of this nation's most highly regarded medical facilities.
"For just under 100 days Alannah and her grandmother have been staying at Children's while she received treatment for a rare and aggressive cancer that was compromising several of her internal organs," the hospital said in a statement.
"When all other treatments had failed, Heung Bae Kim, MD, director of Children's Pediatric Transplant Center suggested a multivisceral transplant that would remove Alannah's tumor and replace the six organs that had been damaged by its presence.
The nine-year old, who hails from the northeastern state of Maine, was the lucky recipient of organs from a recently deceased child of the same size and blood type, and which were able to be transplanted at the same time.
Kim told the Boston Globe newspaper that they anticipate that Alannah will make a complete recovery.
"She will not have real restrictions in terms of activity," he told the Globe.
The surgery performed last Tuesday on young Alannah Shevenell, sought to remove an aggressive cancerous growth festering since 2008, and that had attacked her stomach, liver, pancreas, esophagus, small intestine and spleen.
The surgery was performed in Boston, Massachusetts at Children's Hospital, one of this nation's most highly regarded medical facilities.
"When all other treatments had failed, Heung Bae Kim, MD, director of Children's Pediatric Transplant Center suggested a multivisceral transplant that would remove Alannah's tumor and replace the six organs that had been damaged by its presence.
Advertisement
Kim told the Boston Globe newspaper that they anticipate that Alannah will make a complete recovery.
Advertisement
COMMENTS
Advertisement
"My Lips Are Enhanced" Says TV Star Pavitra Punia Admitting To Lip Augmentation Rimi Sen Reacts To Plastic Surgery Rumours: "Got Fillers, Botox, PRP Treatment Done, Nothing Else" Speech Therapist Sues Dentist For Rs 11 Crore After Botched Surgery Ruins Her Career Video: Woman Tries To Jump Off Mumbai's Atal Setu, Saved By Driver, Cops Parents Gave Names Of Interns, Doctors To CBI In Kolkata Horror: Sources Private Jets, Luxury Cars: Lavish Life Of "Ketamine Queen" Jasveen Sangha Doctors Begin 24-Hour Nationwide Strike Over Kolkata Rape-Murder: 10 Points "Rs 2 Lakh Spent On Each Tree": Mumbai Metro Body's Revelation Sparks Row First Test Flight Of India's Human Space Mission Rocket Likely In December Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.