Liver transplants offer kids a new lease of life


New partnership: Prof Chen (second from right) shaking hands with UM Faculty of Medicine dean Prof Datuk Dr Adeeba Kama­rulzaman at the MoU signing ceremony between UM and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine at Universiti Malaya in Petaling Jaya. Looking on are Dr Kamila (second from left) and Prof Xia.

PETALING JAYA: Two young children have been given a new lease of life after successful paediatric living donor liver transplants involving surgeons from the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) and Renji Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

The transplants for the children were a first for UMMC following the provision of adult liver transplants two years ago.

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