He donated a kidney to his 16-year-old daughter, so as to allow her to return to live fully cultivating her great passion, competitive skating, abandoned a year ago when she discovered - suspicious of abnormal fatigue - that she was suffering from severe kidney failure - fifth grade grade, on a scale of 1 to 5 - requiring an urgent transplant.
Protagonists of the mother and daughter affair, ended up in the operating room at the Sant'Orsola Polyclinic in Bologna - last December 9 - for an organ transplant made possible by the compatibility detected between the mother and the girl.
The removal of the kidney for transplantation was performed by the team of Professor Matteo Ravaioli: the two women followed by the Nephrology directed by Professor Gaetano La Manna are in excellent health.
I am one of the 36 couples who in 2021, at the Sant'Orsola Polyclinic, were involved in a living kidney transplant. Never so many for the Bolognese hospital which, again last year, recorded an absolute record with 126 kidney transplants overall.
Five live donor transplants have already been performed in January. Living donor transplantation, explained by Sant'Orsola, "represents the best possible solution as patients can receive the transplant and perform it in a scheduled way without having to wait for the compatible donor." In this way the organ, the health professionals also explain , “On average it will work better and longer than the one transplanted from a deceased donor”.
(Unioneonline / vl)
