Newswise — Sukru Emre, MD, Head of the Adult and Pediatric Liver Transplant Programs at Mount Sinai Medical Center, has earned a sought after position in New York magazine's Best Doctors in New York issue, published this week.. Dr. Emre is profiled in the 2005 issue that focused on physicians who have impacted the lives of their patients through life-saving "and life-changing -- treatment.
Dr. Emre led a team of surgeons at Mount Sinai in performing a combination of procedures never done before. . Known as a split liver/domino transplant, the transplants involved one cadaveric liver, one living donor, and three transplant recipients. In a split liver transplant, a healthy cadaveric liver is divided into two pieces and given to two recipients. In a domino transplant, a liver that needs to be removed from one patient secondary to rare metabolic disease known as familial amyloid neuropathy is kept intact and transplanted into a second patient, while the first patient receives a new liver.
Three people needed new livers; five-year-old Franklin Chuqui, 37-year-old John Lee and 67-year old Harriet Goldman. Chuqui and Lee received portions of a cadaver liver, while Goldman received Lee's liver, which was removed from him and immediately transplanted into her body! This led to a rare occurrence: a transplant patient meeting the [living] donor of her new organ.
One surgeon, two livers, three saved lives!
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