Mumbai, April 22 -- Narayana Health SRCC Children's Hospital, Mumbai, has successfully performed a complex and rare living donor liver transplant on a 13-month-old baby boy diagnosed with Alagille Syndrome, a life-threatening genetic liver disorder. This milestone case marks one of the few successful liver transplants in an ultra-low-weight infant.

The child was admitted three months ago with severe jaundice and abnormal liver function. Diagnosed with Alagille Syndrome at just six months old, his condition continued to deteriorate which led to chronic liver disease and failure to thrive. Given the progression of the disease and the child's poor prognosis, a living donor liver transplant was planned with his mother volunteering as the don...