Our guest today is Samanda from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who regained her health with the liver she received from her uncle…

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, the light of hope for Samanda was born after the test results of her uncle being compatible.

After a long surgery, Samanda recovered quickly and hugged life tightly again. Samanda, who came to visit us for her routine checkups, is now dreaming about the future in a healthy way. Copper, which is the main cause of Wilson’s disease, is a metal found in many foods. The human body needs a very small amount of copper to stay healthy and the human body normally removes excess copper from the body. However, people with Wilson’s disease are not able to do it and the copper accumulates in the liver, brain, kidneys and cornea. This causes organ damage and leads to organ failure in the body. If there is unresponsiveness to medical treatment in Wilson’s disease and the entire liver is damaged, transplantation is the best treatment option.