A 16-year-old boy hit by a train in Vatra Dornei who had his left leg transplanted underwent new interventions for functional reconstruction, partial skin defect coverage and a surgical toilet, the entire procedure lasting 24 hours.

“The operation lasted 24 hours and 15 minutes, during which the surgical toilet of the replanted limb was restored and the functional reconstruction of the posterior muscle part of the lower leg was carried out through motor-innervated muscle-tendon transmission, neurotization of the external muscle part. , (partial) covering of skin defects with a sensitive innervated skin-fascial flap. Both tissue transplants were performed using microsurgical methods,” doctor Sidonia Suzanou, chief physician of plastic surgery, aesthetic and reconstructive microsurgery and coordinator of the department of plastic surgery at the Santa Maria Children’s Hospital in Iasi, told News.ro.

The doctor specified that the intervention began on Saturday at 10 a.m. and ended on Sunday at 10:15 a.m., and there were five plastic surgeons, an orthopedist, and two anesthesiologists in the operating room.

“Immediately after the operation, the child was extubated, her general condition is very good,” Sidonia told Susan.

A 16-year-old boy underwent surgery on January 18, doctors at the Sfânta Maria Children’s Hospital in Iasi managed to transplant his left leg.

The intervention then lasted about 13 hours and was carried out by a team consisting of several doctors, including specialists in plastic surgery and reconstructive microsurgery, pediatric surgery, as well as intensive care units.

Doctor Tamara Rosu, the press secretary of the Sfânta Maria Children’s Hospital in Iasi, said at the time that the teenager was hospitalized in the hospital’s ATI department, specifying that it was “polytrauma with a high severity index.”

The teenager was airlifted to Sfânta Maria Children’s Hospital in Iasi by SMURD helicopter on January 17 after he was hit by a train near Vatra Dornei station and had his leg amputated.

According to some witnesses, the young man would not have paid attention, he was wearing headphones, and he was surprised by a train near the station in the city of Vatra-Dorney in Suceava.

In December, doctors from Iasi transplanted the hands of a 15-year-old girl

In December, doctors at St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital in Iasi managed to transplant both hands of a 15-year-old girl who was a victim of a bus accident.

The surgery, during which doctors succeeded in replanting both arms of the teenager, lasted 20 hours and involved 10 doctors, 8 nurses, 4 nurses and two stretchers.

Literature:

• 20-hour marathon hand replantation surgery for a teenage girl, according to doctors: Every 7-8 hours we took a break to drink water
• VIDEO First images of Alexia, the 15-year-old who was transplanted with both hands by doctors in Iasi after a 20-hour operation
• Iasi: a girl who had both hands transplanted after an accident was discharged from the hospital. “The only bilateral hand replantation in Europe and the second in the world”