Cystic fibrosis: triple heart transplant lung liver

Cystic fibrosis: triple heart transplant lung liver

A French surgical team at the Broussais hospital, headed by Professor Alain CARPENTIER, has, for the first time in the world, successfully performed a simultaneous heart-lung-liver transplant on a 16-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis. This transplant carried out on June 22 by a team of 19 people had not yet been revealed. This success opens new therapeutic hopes. This intervention was led by Professor CARPENTIER and Dr HOUSSIN. Comment on images of the medical team, of the operating room of a child in intensive care and infographics alternating with the interview of Alain CARPENTIER who explains that the heart transplant was carried out for reasons of greater technical ease. However, it is a palliative treatment, the important one being to treat the disorders created by the defective cystic fibrosis gene. In France, a child with the disease is born every day and it will not be possible to transplant all the little patients.

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File : Organ transplants

Publication date : 9 August 1990