Kyoto doctors conduct liver transplant on 6-year-old girl

Kyoto doctors conduct liver transplant on 6-year-old girl

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University Hospital doctors led by Koichi Tanaka (third from L) carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old girl late on March 29, as part of a series of transplants around Japan of organs extracted from a female patient confirmed legally brain-dead March 28 at a Tokyo hospital. The operations, which were successfully completed by the morning of March 30, involved four organs transplanted to seven patients, including two children, at six medical institutions. Kyoto University Hospital released this photo.

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