Like a Soap Opera The Ağalı family from Bartın lived a life like an old soap opera. Bilal, the eldest son of the family, died of liver failure 8 years ago. Father Mehmet Ağalı, who could only endure the pain of the child for 4 months, committed suicide by hanging himself. 8 years after this
Bosnian 13-year-old Nejra Hukara regained her health after the liver taken from her father was transplanted to her in Istanbul. The married couple Fahrudin and Saida Hukara, who have lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 24 years, took their 13-year-old daughter Nejra to the doctor when her hands and feet started to swell. Nejra,
16-year-old Nagihan Colak’s health problems started when she was born. Nagihan, who was born with a knot in the esophagus and windpipe, was given a 5% chance of life but she decided to hold on to life. Later she started struggling with kidney disease. Nagihan Çolak, a Kidney Recipient, “I was aware of everything even
A Yemeni patient with cryptogenic (unknown cause) liver cirrhosis could not receive a liver transplantation in the first stage because his wife/her husband had fatty liver. After evaluating the general condition of the patient, Prof. Dr. Kamil Yalçın Polat and his team decided that the patient could tolerate the time required for the donor to
Two brothers from Trabzon, Mustafa Uyar (39) and Yaşar Uyar (40), are now also kidney siblings. Brother Yaşar Uyar took his brother to Istanbul without notifying the family members and gave his kidney to his brother without thinking. As a result of the operation carried out by the head of Memorial Ataşehir Hospital Organ Transplant
Yiğit Orhan, 7 years old, has been struggling with liver failure since the day he was born. His disease was diagnosed when he went to the doctor because his skin color was yellow when he was only 2 months old. His days were spent in the hospital, but nothing upset him as much as his
The Eskerov family living in Azerbaijan visited many hospitals first in Azerbaijan and then in Georgia for the growing belly of their 2,5-year-old daughter Derya. However, all the tests were normal and the reason for the swelling in Derya’s abdomen could not be found. Then, the family brought Derya to Turkey. Derya was diagnosed with
Zeynep, who was born with biliary atresia (a congenital absence of gallbladder ducts) held onto life with a transplantation from her mother. The story of baby Zeynep started with jaundice, as in many newborns. Initially, it was thought that she had neonatal jaundice, but her family had to take Zeynep to the hospital after the
Our 26-year-old patient, who had a disease called Budd Chiari Syndrome, which is caused by occlusion or narrowing of the vein in his liver, held onto life with liver transplantation. Suat’s complaints started to disappear one by one, after we performed the surgery with a special technique which is rarely applied in the world and
When Samanda applied to us, the only treatment option for her was transplantation. Years of drug treatment ended after the organ transplantation we performed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Samanda could not receive a donation from her family members due to her mother’s blood type not matching and her father’s heart disease. However,
Our 61-year-old patient had surgery for prostate and then bladder tumor within 1 year. Local bile duct enlargement was detected in the ultrasound taken during routine controls. As a result of the detailed examinations after diagnosis, we determined that our patient had an early stage biliary tract tumor (cholangiocellular carcinoma). In biliary tract tumors, the
