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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Re:Picture of Doom by DAldredge · 2004-03-20 02:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Fuck off and die.
He Just Wants The Publicity by nevek · 2004-03-20 03:46 · Score: 0, Troll

Is this guy going for the cover of time or something, I would bet the money in my wallet right now that that baby is going to die in the next few months (if not earlier).

He just ran up a huge hospital bill and even more grief for the family just so he can set a new nonsensical record.

Its almost like saying "Hey I transplanted a monkey's head onto a human" it lived .0001 seconds, make me a hero!!"