The surgeons of the Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Surgery named after Academician V. Vahidov successfully performed an orthotopic liver transplantation surgeries.
According to the Health Ministry, 8 orthotopic liver transplantation operations were jointly performed by Uzbek-Russian and Uzbek-Indian surgeons to date, while this operation is the first liver transplant performed independently by Uzbek surgeons in the history of the country's medicine.
During the operation, which lasted more than 10 hours, a patient with liver cirrhosis from Romitan district of Bukhara province, the 38-year-old Azima Rozikova received a liver transplant from her 42-year-old brother Bekmurod Rozikov. At present, the patients are in good condition and have been moved to the general ward.
According to the surgeon who led the operation, Professor Mirshavkat Akbarov, the number of patients with liver cirrhosis in Uzbekistan today is 5-6 per one thousand people.
“The main way treatment of liver cirrhosis is the liver transplantation, with donors mostly among close relatives.
A new stage in the development of liver transplantation in Uzbekistan at the Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Surgery named after Academician Vahidov V. began with the signing of a memorandum with the Russian National Medical Research Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after Shumakov V.I. As part of the cooperation, our specialists have repeatedly participated in training courses at the Russian Transplant Center.
Then we decided that we should conduct such surgery independently in our country. This is because the scale of diseases will require us to conduct surgeries on our own. Today, at least 40-50 of our fellow countrymen go abroad every year for liver transplantation. But not everyone can afford it. So for the first time, we did an independent liver transplant. We are confident that both of our patients will fully recover. We are preparing to perform another liver transplant operation in the coming days.
In a word, this is just the beginning. In the future, we intend to include liver transplantation in the daily routine and treat our patients with this disease, he concluded.
