KOCHI: Grandmother donated her kidney and father donated his liver to save a two-year-old girl who weighed 7 kg, making her the smallest child in the world to have successfully undergone dual live-donor transplant. Doctors who performed the transplant at Aster Medcity said that the organ transplant manual states that a child should weigh at least 10kg for a transplant. Parvathy MS from Kodakara in Thrissur suffered from a rare congenital condition called primary hyperoxaluria type -1, in which the deficiency of a liver enzyme leads to abnormal spike in blood oxalate levels that permanently damage...
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