A teacher in the US has saved the life of her 5-year-old pupil by donating one of her kidneys to save the child's life.
A
US preschool teacher, Beth Battista, when she heard that her pupil was
unable to find a suitable kidney donor after a long search happily
offered hers.
She told the BBC: "I knew I just had to get tested rather than watch her suffer."
The surgery was successful and
Beth the teacher and Lyla her pupil are now recovering after the
successful transplant operation which happened on Wednesday, February
22.
Mrs Battista who has two children
said that she heard about Lyla's condition from the young girls mother's
Facebook page after her mother Dena Carreyn shared a Facebook post
about the girl's desperate need for a living kidney donor.
She said after reading the post, she could not not ignore the suffering of the five-year-old child
About
a year ago the little girl was diagnosed with microscopic polyangiitis
(MPA), a rare autoimmune disorder which requires 12 hours of dialysis a
day.
The teacher, Beth contacted the
the UW Health Transplant Program in Wisconsin and, after undergoing two
tests in July and August, it was found that she was a match with the
girl.
It
was especially amazing because it was a rare match. Beth needed to be
the right blood group with few antibodies picked up from previous bouts
of sickness. She also needed to have matching antigens with Lyla.
The
operation which took place last week required surgeons to make four
small incisions in her stomach in order to pull the kidney out, before
taking it to Lyla, who was in a nearby hospital ward.
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