The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Ibn Sina announced on Sunday that its multidisciplinary teams, in collaboration with the team from the French Paul Brousse Hospital, had carried out two new liver transplants in Morocco from related living donors in less than 48 hours, claiming that this was a first at the national level. On the night of September 9-10, 2024, an emergency liver transplant treated fulminant hepatitis in a 19-year-old woman with acute coma-stage liver failure using the left hemi-lobe of her 53-year-old father, Ibn Sina University Hospital said in a statement. Less than 36 hours later, a second liver transplant was performed on a 65-year-old patient suffering from decompensated cirrhosis, thanks to the donation of her 33-year-old daughter's right liver. The preparation, coordination, conduct, and pre- and post-operative management of these four complex procedures (2 donors and 2 recipients) successfully concluded an innovative program for the transfer of multidisciplinary medical, surgical, and nursing expertise (hepatology, resuscitation, anesthesia, surgery, radiology, and anatomopathology) in the field of transplantation from the living donor started in 2019 at the National Institute of Oncology (CHU Ibn Sina), according to the same source. In highly selected cases (biological compatibility, anatomical compatibility, and medico-legal validation), living related donation offers an alternative to donation from the brain-dead state for Moroccan patients on the liver transplant waiting list, it says.
