1-year-old Pakistani boy becomes India's youngest liver recipient

New Delhi, Aug 2 (UNI) A one-year-old boy from Karachi has created medical history by becoming the youngest ever to undergo a successful liver transplant in India.

Sheryar, who received a part of her grandmother's liver, is doing fine after the surgery at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, doctors said.

The boy was born with a medical condition in which the bile ducts of the liver were absent or underdeveloped. The fatal disease causes deep jaundice, pale stools and lack of digestion soon after birth, doctors who performed the surgery a month ago told a news conference today.

Sheryar had undergone a surgery when he was three months old, but it was not successful. His physical growth was retarded and he was unlikely to survive for more than a few months without a transplant, the doctors said.

The family of Sheryar contacted the hospital after coming to know of its successful transplants on many patients from Pakistan.

Two liver transplant surgeons and a pedaitric hepatologist conducted the surgery.

''The child was discharged last week, he is doing fine,'' said Dr Neelam Mohan, the hospital's pedaitric liver specialist.

A hospital in London had conducted a liver transplant on a five-year-old girl in 1997.

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