Noura al brush, who worked as a social worker at the Dubai Medical Center, visited a nearby hospital due to a fever. During hospitalization, she fell into a coma because she had a fulminant hepatic failure, which means her liver was not functioning properly. Her family finally took her an air-ambulance and moved her to the Samsung Medical Center in order to save her.However, another difficulty arose. None of the family members were able to donate liver to her. Patients who have difficulty transplanting should maximize their recovery ability of the liver so that they increase survival rate, because the disease have been known as a very fatal disease with a survival rate of only 10-25 percent.
Samsung Medical Center arranged a special medical team of professors who have various experience in hepatic insufficiency, including Prof Sinn, Dong Hyun, Department of Gastroenterology, and professors of Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nephrology Internal Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Organ Transplantation.
On the 5th day of hospitalization, Noura woke up dramatically. In about a month, her prognosis was good enough for her to be discharged.
Prof. Sinn said, “It is rare for a patient to recover liver function only by intensive care without receiving a liver transplant. This is a combination of her strong will power and the multidisciplinary team who can actively cope with various situations that may arise during fulminant hepatic failure.
