The American Hospital, the first and the biggest health institution in Albania continues successfully the realization of the transplants, where recently the liver transplant was realized.

The doctors of this hospital realized successfully the liver transplant to a 34 year old patient, B. Xh. who underwent more than two weeks ago the liver transplant in the American Hospital. The specialized team made up of foreign and Albanian doctors like Prof. Dr. Sadik Ersoz, Dr. Kadir Burak Koza and Dr. Arben Murati, general surgeons have successfully realized this particular and difficult intervention for the surgery in the country.

The patient was diagnosed with hepatitis B, which had caused liver cirrhosis. The donor for this patient was his 60 year old mother, who after the proper examination, the doctors made sure that her liver was suitable for this transplant.

This intervention, the first of its kind not only in the Albanian medicine, but also in the regional one, was realized successfully.

According to the American Hospital doctors, the patient and his mother are in good health conditions and have faced successfully this intervention together.