Six Months Old, Eight New Organs

Posted by michael on Saturday March 20, 2004 @01:44AM from the organlegging dept.

AEton writes "According to the BBC, Dr. Andreas Tzakis has just successfully replaced six-month-old Alessia Di Matteo's liver, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, spleen, left kidney, and right kidney in a record-setting operation. The child is so far doing fine with a one-year-old baby's organs. Tzakis is no stranger to multiple-organ transplants; in 1997 he set the previous record of seven organs by replacing seven of a two-and-a-half-year-old's organs. It must be a little odd to know that a growing plurality of your tissue used to be someone else's."

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However... by Slapdash+X.+Hashbang · 2004-03-20 01:53 · Score: 4, Funny

The one-year-old baby is not doing so well.
It reminds me of a joke... by JamesP · 2004-03-20 02:11 · Score: 4, Funny

Doctor: I'm sorry to say, but your baby was born with no arms...

Mother: Oh, doctor, I don't care, I'll still love him...

D: I'm afraid he doesn't have any legs either...

M: Never mind, he's still my son...

D: He doesn't have a trunk...

M: Ah...

D: And no head, either...

M: But, what does he has...

D: An ear...

(doctor brings the ear)

M: OH MY SON, MY BEAUTIFUL SON...

D: It's no use screaming, cause he's deaf...

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