Gulshen (34) and Caner Aydemir (36), who have an uncle’s children, got married in 2012 and had children named Emirkhan in 2013. Emirkhan Aydemir, who had no major health problems until the age of 10, was taken to hospital by his family last January complaining of sudden weight loss. After examinations, the child was referred to the Uludag Bursa University Hospital (BUU) with a diagnosis of liver failure and liver dysfunction, he was diagnosed with Wilson’s disease, a rare hereditary disease resulting from the accumulation of copper in the liver, brain and other vital organs.
URGENT DECISION IS MADE ON ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
Lecturer of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology BUU prof. Dr. Tanju Basharr Ozkan stated that a decision had been made for an emergency organ transplant for the child, whose condition worsened in a short time, and said: “During the first week of observation, we observed that the liver functions were gradually deteriorating. k. But the blood type must be a suitable donor for transplantation. First of all, they must be close relatives. A suitable donor could not be found,” he said.
“WE ARE A HUGE FAMILY, BUT IT DOES NOT FITS ANYONE”
Gülşen Aydemir said that there was no first-degree donor in the family: “I didn’t come out. I cried all day. Because I don’t know what to do. They used to say:“ This is not a transplant.
HE DECIDED TO MESSAGE FROM A FRIEND
The call made by the Aydemir family on the WhatsApp family group spread from hand to hand in a short time. She contacted Yasemin Fırat, a factory worker, through a friend. Yasemin Fırat described the process that led her to organ donation in these words: “I found out about this news thanks to a friend from the WhatsApp group. She wrote:” Do you have 0 RH Positive blood, girls? “She wrote. After that, I was going to donate blood first. The next day it turned out to be liver. Then I decided to meet with the doctors. What was the process. Then they put me to the test. Then I saw Emirhan anyway. Before the operation, he told me: “You don’t Are you afraid we are both going to have an operation?” Then he came to me the day before the operation, said: “I love you very much, you know?” He said, “I love you very much.
“Didn’t save my brother, my boy had a chance”
Fırat said that the recent loss of his brother in a traffic accident forced him to make this decision. Stating that he felt embarrassed before the transfer, he did not share his decision with friends and relatives so that they would not discourage him: “We need a piece of his liver. The child has a life expectancy of 48 hours. You know, either the child dies or the liver is found. There is no risk in this,” my friend told me. My brother is gone. We are 5 brothers and sisters, we were 6, 5 brothers and sisters are left. There are 6 of us again,” he said.
“Sister Jasmine gave me life”
Emirkhan Aydemir, who recovered in a short time after transplantation on January 29, said that he now has an older sister: “Jasmine Yasemin gave me her liver. She gave me life. I saw him in the next room.
A TEAM OF 30 PEOPLE JOINED, THE OPERATION LASTED 12 HOURS
Pediatric surgery lecturer Dr. Fatih Celik and organ transplant coordinators Sahriye Keskin and Kerem Selimoglu with a team of 30 said that after a 12-hour operation, 35 percent of Yasemin Firat’s liver was removed and transplanted to Emirhan Aydemir, head of the Department of General Surgery at the BUÜ Faculty of Medicine and director of the Center for Organ Transplantation. Dr. Ekrem Kaya said: “Emergency is a good outcome. Let’s summarize this event. Our child, Emirhan, fell ill with Wilson. He suddenly got worse. He needed an urgent liver transplant. We asked for a liver from a cadaver. It is enough to donate a cadaveric liver, such procedures can be easily done without harming anyone and without harming anyone’s body. We urge our people to be empathetic in this matter. As in Western countries, I think that we can handle these things without putting ourselves at too much risk,” he said.
“ONE WORK WILL SAVE 7 PEOPLE”
Specialist in General Surgery Assoc. Dr. Ercument Gürlüler, drawing attention to the importance of organ donation from corpses, said: “Liver transplants have a special place among transplants. Since these transplants are on the waiting list, we are losing some of them within 1-2 years because there are not enough cadaveric donors. That is why we are forced to turn to living donors. , it has decreased. Now again there is an increase in cadaver transplants gradually, but we will never be able to become Europe or America. While 60-70 percent of transplants abroad are from corpses, about 30 percent are live transplants, we have the opposite, more than 90 percent of live transplants, 10 percent of donations from corpses. Maybe 2 lung transplants, there is a heart transplant. He saved 2 kidney patients. 2 corneas. Therefore, we have to work mainly on cadaveric donations. But in such mandatory situations, when we cannot be found in emergency situations, we turn to live transplants. Although it is very rare, it is done from the family into the fourth generation or on special occasions, in unrelated transmissions with special permission,” he said.
1165 KIDNEYS, 400 LIVER HAS BEEN TRANSPLANTED
Paying attention to the number of transplants performed by the Organ Transplant Center of the BUÜ Hospital, Chief Physician Prof. Dr. Khalil Saglam stated that since 1988, 1165 kidney transplants have been performed, 503 from cadaveric and 602 from living donors, and since 2007, 400 liver transplants have been performed, 320 from cadaveric and 80 from living donors. Stating that the organ transplantation performed for Emirkhan Aydemir occupies a special place, prof. Dr. Saglam said: “It was great news that we had an unrelated donor, which is a donor that we will encounter very rarely. Therefore, we wholeheartedly congratulate Yasemin on this.