A few days ago, the reporter learned from Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine that the 5-month-old child who received liver transplantation combined with pancreaticoduodenectomy in the hospital's liver surgery recovered smoothly and was discharged.

Liver transplantation and pancreaticoduodenectomy are both important operations in the surgical field, and it is extremely difficult to carry out them together. Only a few documents in the world have reported adult cases. The infant liver transplantation combined with pancreaticoduodenectomy successfully performed in the liver surgery department of Yan Chai Hospital broke the world record, and the child born only five months became the youngest patient in the world to undergo the operation.

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This operation refreshes the age limit for pancreaticoduodenectomy:

Liver transplantation and pancreaticoduodenectomy in children are the best surgical techniques, which greatly test the skills of surgeons, surgical joint medical teams and postoperative nursing teams.

The successful implementation of the world's smallest infant liver transplantation combined with pancreaticoduodenectomy has refreshed the age limit of pancreaticoduodenectomy, and once again demonstrated the world-class treatment level of the multidisciplinary treatment team of liver transplantation for children in Renji Hospital.

People's Daily Online-Shanghai Renji Hospital completed liver transplantation combined with pancreaticoduodenectomy for the world's youngest baby.