Kochi, Aug 28 (PTI) A multi-speciality private hospital here has completed 120 liver transplants since March 2020 till date with a success rate of 94 per cent.

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Among the 120 transplants, 10 successful paediatric liver transplants and three multi-organ transplants have also been performed by the hospital's Comprehensive Liver Care Institute team (CLCI), city-based Lakeshore Hospital said.

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"While the challenges put forth by the pandemic have no precedents, the CLCI team delivered best outcomes to this large number of patients, in which the youngest patient was a six-month-old baby and the oldest being 74," the hospital said in a release.

Dr Navneetan Subramaniam, chief of liver anaesthesia and critical care of the hospital, said transplantation in patients who have recently recovered from COVID-19 was a challenge due to uncertainties including the diagnosis, underlying post-COVID complications, multi-organ systemic involvement, and the possibilities of immunosuppression.

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