Liver transplant at Brotzu hospital for the 75-year-old pensioner from Olbia admitted for mushroom poisoning after eating the potentially deadly Amanita phalloides .
The life-saving surgery was necessary because the poison had compromised his organ . The transplant, performed by the team at the Cagliari hospital – a point of reference in Sardinia for this type of pathology – was successful and now the patient, who was in very serious conditions, is under observation .
Last Thursday, the man had presented himself to the emergency room of the Giovanni Paolo II in Olbia with severe abdominal pain. The previous evening he had collected some wild mushrooms in the countryside around the city and then decided to cook them and eat them for dinner . Thanks to the examination of the mushrooms brought to the emergency room by his family (who had not eaten them), the experts of the Mycological Inspectorate, notified by the doctors, were able to trace the origin of the illness, caused by the ingestion of the amanita phalloides, one of the most toxic mycological species in absolute terms . The ASL has renewed the invitation to have the mushrooms examined by the Mycological Inspectorate, a service present in Olbia and Tempio.
