Little Vitalik from Novyi Rozdil is only 4 months old, but he has already visited several hospitals and has even undergone a surgery. The child has a difficult diagnosis – Atresia of the biliary tract, when cirrhosis of the liver develops rapidly. An urgent liver transplant is needed, and the baby has less than three months to survive!
Vitalik was born on 39 week after an emergency cesarean. After birth, the baby and its mother were discharged from the hospital in satisfactory condition. At home, the mother noticed that the child had yellowish skin. Doctors were convinced that this was newborn jaundice, which occurs quite often and which should disappear in two weeks. Instead, a month later the child’s skin turned even more yellow. Blood test for bilirubin showed that it is 10 times higher than normal.
After an MRI, doctors found congenital liver disease, and the only way out was a liver transplant. In Ukraine, only living-donor liver transplant operations are performed and in case the child is at least one year old and weighs min 10 kg. But in the case of Vitalik, he is too small and his parents are not suitable as donors. Moreover, even close relatives cannot become donors. In the OKHMATDIT clinic, a Kasai procedure was performed to delay the transplant. But in two weeks it was found that the operation was ineffective.
Belgian doctors are ready to make a liver transplant from a non-family. The San Luc Clinic has issued an invoice of 135 thousand euros – and this is only the cost of the operation, though there will be additional costs, including two mandatory postoperative examinations – 5800 € and expensive supportive medication – 2000 €.This sum is simply cosmic for the family. Thanks to caring people, parents have already managed to raise 23 thousand euros and the amount still remains very large.
Vitalik has only three months to get a new liver, because otherwise the child may simply not survive. The family begs each of you for help for their only son. Please do not be indifferent! Let’s help Vitalik grow up as a healthy child!
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Holovchenko Ivanna (mother)
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Holovchenko Ivanna (mother)