Overview

• The infant’s rare congenital biliary malformation led to life-threatening liver failure and no suitable deceased-donor organ became available.
• Professor Renato Romagnoli’s team at Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino conducted the 13-hour operation combining a maternal liver segment donation with a jugular vein autograft to replace the diseased portal vein.
• Legal clearance from the Tribunal of Turin and the National Transplant Center in Rome via the Regional Transplant Center enabled the living-donor procedure on an expedited timeline.
• Both mother and child experienced smooth recoveries, with the mother discharged six days after donation and doctors reporting optimal function of the transplanted liver.
• Two weeks post-operation, the infant was transferred to Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita for specialized nutritional rehabilitation under Professor Franca Fagioli’s care.