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Liver transplantation surgery is delayed Ramdan

SURABAYA, KOMPAS.com - Operation against Ramdan Aidil liver transplant Saputra (3.5) in Dr Soetomo, Saturday (04/24/2010), is almost complete. When this doctor was complete cleavage of the donor liver.

The operation that started at 8:00 was performed in Building 607 and 609 Integrated Surgical Center (GBPT) Dr Soetomo. Ramdan surgery in rooms 609 and handled eight doctors.

While mothers who become donors Ramdan, Sulistyowati (43), surgery in 607 rooms and handled four doctors. Operation of Ramdan starts by lifting all parts of the heart.

The boy was home Tulungagung abnormal liver or biliary atresia. Disorder that makes the whole liver tissue Ramdan rot and could not function. Ramdan get a donor from his mother who donated the first and second parts of the heart. Currently, heart surgery Sulistyowati was 90 percent.

"It will not be released directly from the donor body. Waiting until a recipient's body is ready to accept or stay paired only. So, the network is not too long outside," said Forum Chairman Dr Soetomo Press, Urip Murtedjo.

The operation was originally scheduled to finish at 15.00. However, until 13:50 o'clock, the process of completing the first phase of new operations.