RSCM Again Successfully Transplants Hearts To Adult Patients

President Director of RSCM dr. Supriyanto (Between)

JAKARTA - The National Central General Hospital (RSUPN) dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo (RSCM) succeeded in transplanting the heart of the 10th adult patient in 2024, following the successful first liver transplant in 2010. "We have successfully handled 89 cases of liver transplantation in children and adults, which are currently the 10th case, and this year is the first procedure we have carried out after the Pandemic," said RSCM President Director dr. Supriyanto at a press conference in Jakarta, Sunday. He revealed, the success rate of liver transplantation at RSCM, which was assessed one year after the patient had a transplant, was 82 percent. So far, liver transplantation at RSCM was carried out under the supervision of the National Hospital Center for Child and Heart Disease Tokyo, where the current success of liver transplantation in the country is 85 percent. "RSUPN RSCM has already experienced extraordinary progress, especially the most difficult liver transplantation, our success is already at the Asian level. The transplantation of our children is already independent, and this year is the last supervision of Japan, so that we can also be independent of adult patients," he explained.

In the future, he continued, RSCM will continue to manage other hospitals in Indonesia, so that liver transplantation is not only carried out in RSCM, but also spreads evenly throughout Indonesia hospitals. Meanwhile, Internal Medicine Specialist RSUPN RSCM dr. Kemal Fariz Kalista, who handles liver transplant patients at RSCM this time, explains that the patient's age is around 53 years old, whose donors come from sister-in-laws. "Two main conditions for living donors, there must be a family relationship, and blood class must be equal or compatible, then related to the background of the disease, indeed to date, anywhere in the world, indications for performing this transplanting are cirrhosis of the liver, which is a final stage of liver disease, where the liver cannot function normally," he said. The sirosis of the liver makes the poisons that should be metabolized by the liver accumulate, causing various complications. "The cause of the second liver cancer, namely the onset of a malignant bump that is in the heart, and this is very aggressive. The death rate of this liver cancer is the highest, 89-90 percent," he said. "The patient suffers both, cirrhosis and cancer, so with this transplant at the same time treat two diseases, the first is cirrosis of the liver and cancer of his heart," he added. The Director of RSCM also recommends that patients who want to make heart transplants for treatment to the RSCM and need not go abroad, because the success rate is already high and the risk of death for living donors is already zero percent.