{"id":7218,"date":"2026-11-05T23:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/2026\/11\/05\/a-chance-for-a-healthy-childhood-a-5-year-old-boy-from-zakarpattia-received-a-kidney-transplant-in-lviv-after-two-years-on-dialysis\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T23:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:43:58","slug":"a-chance-for-a-healthy-childhood-a-5-year-old-boy-from-zakarpattia-received-a-kidney-transplant-in-lviv-after-two-years-on-dialysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zakvisnyk.com.ua\/en\/2026\/11\/05\/a-chance-for-a-healthy-childhood-a-5-year-old-boy-from-zakarpattia-received-a-kidney-transplant-in-lviv-after-two-years-on-dialysis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chance for a Healthy Childhood: A 5-year-old boy from Zakarpattia received a kidney transplant in Lviv after two years on dialysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Little Mark was born with a severe kidney condition, and after complications from strep throat, his life depended on nightly medical procedures. The donor was a 44-year-old man from Rivne, whose family consented to the transplant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five-year-old Mark from the Zakarpattia region was given the chance to live a full life without constant, exhausting medical procedures. At the \u201cOkhmatdyt\u201d Children\u2019s Medical Center in Lviv, surgeons performed a kidney transplant from a deceased donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The press office of the Lviv Children\u2019s Medical Center reported on the young patient\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years of nighttime dialysis and a critical complication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mark was born with congenital ureteral abnormalities and anatomically underdeveloped kidneys. Despite the complex diagnosis, the child held on, but at the age of three, after suffering from acute tonsillitis, his body suffered a serious breakdown\u2014his kidneys failed completely, and doctors diagnosed end-stage renal failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To save his life, the child needed regular dialysis. Since the family lives in Zakarpattia and traveling to Lviv three times a week was extremely difficult, doctors in Lviv selected and set up a home peritoneal dialysis system. For nearly two years, every evening, the boy\u2019s mother, Angelina, connected her son to a special machine, whose purification cycle lasted about 12 hours each night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Life-Saving Call and the New Organ\u2019s Function<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The long-awaited news of a match arrived in the middle of the night. The lifesaving deceased donor was a 44-year-old man from Rivne, whose family, at the most difficult moment, made the compassionate decision to consent to the donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complex surgical procedure took place on October 18:<\/p>\n\n\n\n