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
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
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
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
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,
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
