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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Seems Risky by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-20 01:46 · Score: -1, Redundant

it seems like a risky thing to do
Question by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-20 01:54 · Score: -1, Redundant

Since these organs are not hers, it makes me wonder how her body will react to these throughout life. Will they all age with her, having full operation? Also, at what point is a person considered which baby. If half of this baby is made of the doner baby, which baby is it?