It took 20 doctors and a 16-hour long surgery to give a new lease of life to seven-month-old Sivojit Paul, who became the youngest child ever to undergo a liver transplant in India.Diagnosed with a liver disorder called Biliary Atresia -- a condition in which there is no connection between the liver and the intestine to excrete the bile -- Sivojit was brought to the Indraprastha Apollo hospital when he was six months old.The infant's liver had failed due to persistent inability to excrete the bile which in turn oozed out to spread in his body, leading to severe jaundice."His case was a major challenge for us due his young age and worsening health condition," Dr Anupam Sibal, senior paediatric gastroentologist of Apollo, said, claiming Sivojit was the youngest child in the undergo to undergo such a surgery.Sibal said a liver transplant is ideally performed after the child is above the age of one year as the risk is very high at such a young age. "Above all no such transplantation could have been carried out in India successfully."The toddler, the doctors said, was a "high risk" baby as his general condition was week and he had undergone a KASAI surgery to join the liver and intestine, only two months back.
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