Thailand’s first intestinal and multivisceral transplantation performed

[snoop1130]

 

Siriraj Hospital announced today (Tuesday) that it has performed Thailand’s first intestinal and multivisceral transplantation.

 

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Siriraj Hospital Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa called the achievement a new chapter in the history of organ transplantation in Thailand.

 

At a press conference today, he said that the complicated surgery looks easy “but is not easy at all”, noting that, even in the United States where many organ transplantations are performed each year, fewer than 200 cases of intestinal transplantations are successfully performed annually.

 

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[hotchilli]

Any progress is welcome achievement.

[wombat]

What is that in dumbed down English please?

[Pique Dard]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

he said that the complicated surgery looks easy “but is not easy at all”

...well, well, well, i'm not a surgeon! but i don't understand how a complicated surgery can look easy!

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, wombat said:

What is that in dumbed down English please?

Quote from Google:-

 

Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation is a surgery that removes diseased or malfunctioning organs along the gastrointestinal tract and replaces them with healthy donor organs. It may involve the small and large intestines, liver, pancreas, or stomach.

[KhunLA]

If reading the article, only the small intestines were transplanted / replaced.