Archive · 7 Aug 2025
India's First Blood-Mismatch Liver Transplant Achieves Success
A little boy named Umar, who had a rare disease called MMA, needed a new liver.
Because no matching livers were available, doctors performed a special transplant where his mother donated part of her liver.
To help his body accept the new liver despite a blood type mismatch, they used special medicines.
Doctors from Rajagiri Hospital and AIIMS worked together to make this groundbreaking surgery successful.
A two-year-old boy with MMA received a blood group-incompatible liver transplant.
The transplant was performed at Rajagiri Hospital in Aluva, Kerala.
The donor was the child's mother, Saniya, who donated a portion of her liver.
Advanced immunosuppressive therapy and plasmapheresis were used.
The procedure was a collaboration between Rajagiri Hospital and AIIMS, New Delhi.
- Who
- Umar, a two-year-old boy with MMA, and his mother Saniya.
- What
- A successful blood group-incompatible liver transplant.
- When
- Not explicitly stated, but recently.
- Where
- Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala, India.
- Why
- To treat Umar's Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA).
- Patient
- Umar (2-year-old boy)
- Condition
- Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA)
- Procedure
- Blood group-incompatible liver transplant
- Location
- Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala
- Donor
- Umar's mother, Saniya
- Collaboration
- Rajagiri Hospital & AIIMS, New Delhi