7-Year-Old Girl Has 6 Organs Removed For Inoperable Abdominal Tumor Surgery

A 7-year-old girl from Long Island, NY, is on her way home a little more than four weeks after receiving a historic surgery that involved the removal and partial re-implantation of six organs in order to resect an abdominal tumor that otherwise would be inoperable. The 23-hour surgery, which began on Feb. 6, was led by Dr. Tomoaki Kato [(212) 305-5101, 877-LIVER-MD] at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, and is the first reported pediatric case of its kind. Dr. Kato and his team of seven surgeons and eight other clinicians removed nearly every major organ in the girl's abdominal cavity -- small and large intestines, liver, pancreas, spleen and stomach. Three separate surgical teams worked to remove the tennis ball-sized tumor, which was tangled around vital organs and essential blood vessels. One team worked on the abdominal cavity, while two others prepared the small and large intestines and liver, which were kept healthy outside the body using cold preservation fluid of the kind used in transplantation. Throughout the surgery, the patient's father, a firefighter, was on standby as a transplant donor in case his daughter's liver was too damaged; it was determined to be healthy and viable. The liver, small and large intestines were re-implanted. However, her pancreas, spleen and stomach -- non-vital organs that had been compromised by the tumor -- were unsuitable for re-implantation. While the tumor was rare, Dr. Kato notes that the surgical approach ...

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