A 9-year-old girl back home after six – orga...
A 9-year-oldMainegirl is back home from Children’s Hospital Boston, three month after a receiving multiple organs transplant.
Last fall the doctors gave Alannah Shevenell six new organs in a transplant operation: a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus, which were been attacked by an extremely complicated tumor.
“They come together sort of as a cluster, so it’s almost like transplanting one big organ,” said Dr. Heung Bae Kim, the director of the Children’s Pediatric Transplant Center.
According to hospital officials, “it was the world's first known esophageal transplant and the most organs transplanted at one time inNew England.”
Even though Alannah is now home healthy and active her grandparents have to check her blood sugar and make sure that she takes all her medications each day according to doctors’ prescriptions.


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