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11:35 p. M.
Sunday 20 December 2020
Menoufia – Ahmed El-Bahi:
The clock struck eight in the morning, and with it he exploded four whole years of memories of the age of his little girl and the days he lived with his partner. Sharif Khairy, 34, his partner, Walaa, and their daughter, Laila, had just hugged a surgeon while standing in front of the door of the operating room at the Liver Institute in Shebin al-Kom for more than 10 hours, begging their Lord to save them, even if they had some scars that stayed on their bodies for the rest of their lives.
This small family did not enjoy a joyful moment in recent years. With a diseased liver, Laila was born four years ago. He spent his entire life under the diagnosis and advice of doctors to postpone any surgical intervention at this young age.
“We didn’t know which way to go”; Khairi, who was told by a team of doctors that her daughter, Laila, had cirrhosis, could be due to a genetic defect. “They advised him to take medication and postpone any surgery until he is older.”
A few days ago, Walaa checked on her daughter, Laila, to see how she was doing and noticed that her hand had turned blue. I sought help from “Khairy”, who rushed to take his daughter to the Liver Institute in Shebin El-Kom.
With the moment in which the father and the mother arrived, together with the little “Laila”, to the liver institute, the doctors ordered that the young woman be prepared for the operating room, while indicating the need to deliver a donor with a lobe liver, who is forced by the serious condition of the girl.
Without the slightest hesitation, Walaa surrendered to the doctors, “I donated a liver lobe for my daughter.” To begin the stage of submitting the mother and her daughter to the necessary tests for urgent surgery, at a time when the whole universe seemed to revolve around the father, losing all the balance he was trying to maintain.
The procedures ended with Sunday’s determination to perform the surgery. Here, all the long hours “Khairy” flashed by until everything came to a complete stop at eight in the morning with “Walaa” and “Laila” entering the operating room.
Khairy stood in front of the operating room door for more than 10 hours, until fate signaled a true moment of joy for which her heart soared, when she saw her partner leaving the operating room and her daughter behind her to two intensive care rooms to monitor his condition.
“Layla’s case is being carried out for the first time at the Menoufia Liver Institute.” The institute’s executive director, Dr. Tawfiq Hassan, who explained – in exclusive statements to Masrawy – that a high-level medical team successfully completed the transfer of a liver lobe left from the mother to her child, adding that they were transferred a Intensive care to follow up and ensure the success of the operation.
In the context of his statements, Dr. Tawfiq Hassan referred to the diagnosis of the girl, “Layla”, and said that she was born with “Hepatopulmonary Syndrome”, and that the severity of her condition is due to the passage of the inferior vena cava behind the liver, and the presence of atrophy in the bile ducts accompanied by fibrosis, which resulted in failure. In lung function, he required urgent surgery.
During the last days, Leila’s crisis gained a lot of sympathy through social networks, which transmitted the story of the little family, and referred to a severe economic crisis that the family suffered with the worsening of the minor’s health. , who barely completed his surgery successfully, until Menoufia University issued a statement. In it, he confirmed that the rector of the University, Dr. Adel Mubarak, followed her crisis and ordered to provide her with everything she needed medically to save her.
According to the university statement, the girl “Layla” has been admitted to the isolation room for liver transplantation in intensive care, while she is currently receiving intensive medical follow-up, which will continue until she is completely sure of her recovery.
Leila’s surgical team was led by Dr. Ibrahim Abdel-Qader, head of the liver, pancreas and bile duct department and director of the liver transplant unit, and was assisted by a team of 11 doctors They are: Hani Abdel-Majeed, Osama Hegazy, Hazem Zakaria, Islam Ayoub, Muhammad Balabel Yahya Fayed, Mahmoud Makasht, Ahmed Salam, Muhammad Sharshar, Sami Sameh and Nermin Al-Adawi, head of the institute’s pediatrics department, in addition to an anesthesia team led by Dr. Essam Abdel Fattah and Mays Najla Al-Bambi, head of the operating nursing team.
Also read: “Laila” … the story of a mother who donated a portion of her liver to save “the pleasure of her liver”
