Miracle for a woman from Suceava who was desperately waiting for a liver transplant. The life-saving organ came in record time

A 52-year-old woman from Suceava received a new chance at life, after doctors from the Saint Spiridon Hospital in Iasi performed a liver transplant. So far Suceveanca had been called three times for a transplant.

The woman from Suceava had been diagnosed with a terrible disease, in an advanced state, and since then she hoped every day for a miracle.

She was called by doctors three times to see if she was compatible with possible donors, but without success. Her hope was reborn on Sunday, April 28, after it was found that she is compatible with a brain-dead patient from Sibiu.

“I appealed to the Department for Emergency Situations, to the General Aviation Inspectorate, which sent the SMURD plane. He took the team of surgeons from here, from Iasi, they went to Sibiu. They did the liver sampling and they returned in record timeso that this transplant was possible“, explained doctor Diana Cimpoeşu, from UPU SMURD Iasi.

For the doctors of the hospital in Iaşi, it is a first, as they performed two liver transplants in 24 hours. The second shipment was made to a 48-year-old man.

Mother with four children, saved by a liver transplant

Another woman, this time from Galati County, in a coma, received a liver from a brain-dead donor on April 1, 2024, the transplant operation being performed for the first time at “St. Spiridon” Hospital in Iasi.

The coordinator of UPU-SMURD Iaşi, doctor Diana Cimpoeşu, stated that the woman who underwent the transplant operation is a mother of four children, she is from Galati County and was brought to the Iasi hospital in a coma.

The donor is a 56-year-old woman, whose liver was taken at the Bucharest University Hospital.

“Today, for the first time, an emergency liver transplant for acute liver failure was performed at the Saint Spiridon Hospital in Iasi. The recipient is a 33-year-old woman, mother of four children from Galati county. She was brought by ambulance in a coma. She was admitted to Intensive Care on Friday. For the liver transplant, the urgent transplant request from a brain-dead donor was triggered. The liver was taken this morning at the hospital in Bucharest, and the transplant was carried out in the afternoon in Iaşi”, said the doctor Diana Cimpoeşu.

Dr. Diana Cimpoeşu stated that the evolution of the health of the woman who received the liver is favorable.

A 31-year-old Romanian woman, saved by doctors in Italy

Another young Romanian woman, diagnosed with liver cancer and lymph node metastases, was saved by doctors in Italy at the end of January 2023.

Mihaela Todireanu, 31 years old, who has a 10-year-old daughter, was diagnosed with liver cancer with metastases in the lymph nodes. Italian doctors at the Ismett Clinic in Palermo performed a liver transplant on him and thus saved his life.

The young woman fell ill with Covid-19 and after a few days she started having severe stomach pains. After the necessary medical investigations, he was informed that he had liver cancer. A cruel diagnosis.

But Mihaela’s mother-in-law, who is a medical staff in Italy, helped her to be hospitalized in a hospital in Milan. Long treatments followed, which only prolonged his life because the only real salvation offered him was a liver transplant.

In this regard, she was accepted to a hospital in Turkey, but the costs exceeded her economic possibilities and she had to wait. The chance came from the Ismett Clinic in Palermo, which at one point had a compatible donor for Mihaela.

“I got a call on January 17, at a very late hour, from the hospital and they asked me if I could get to Palermo in a few hours for the transplant, because they had a compatible donor with me. Unfortunately I was not able to arrive at the times indicated by the doctors, but I arrived on January 18. The same evening I was called again, because another compatible donor was found. I got to the hospital, they did tests all night, and at 8:30 they put me in the operating room“, said Mihaela Todireanu.

The transplant operation lasted 13 hours, and the Romanian mother returned home to her little girl.