MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban girl Amanda Lemus Ortiz, who had a liver transplant last March, underwent a new surgical intervention this Monday in Spain that, according to his mother reported to activist Yamilka Lafitaknown on social networks as Lara Crofs, concluded successfully.
The operation sought to resolve complications in the bile duct, including the placement of a stent (endoprostheses).
“[Amanda] He already left the room. Everything is fine, thank God (…). I haven’t seen her yet, but the doctors told me that everything had gone well. It took a long time because it was complex but the goal is now set. stent“said Milagros Ortiz, the minor’s mother. He also added that the surgery was “quite big” and that now we just have to wait for the girl’s recovery.
The little girl had been admitted again on November 27 due to dilation of the bile duct and the previous impossibility of placing the stent. According to information released by Lafita, these hospitalizations were foreseeable during the first postoperative year due to the precarious conditions in which Amanda arrived in Spain.
After the liver transplant in March, the girl faced episodes of bleeding and hematoma formation in the operated area, as well as the narrowing of the bile ducts that prevented her from properly draining bile. Repeated attempts to place the stent Non-surgical methods were unsuccessful, forcing specialists to perform surgery on December 16.
The story of Amanda Lemus Ortiz goes back to Cuba, where the minor, diagnosed with atresia of the bile ducts, waited more than a year for a transplant without receiving a satisfactory response from the authorities, according to her mother. The girl came to Spain in February thanks to a humanitarian visa and the collective effort of media campaigns and fundraising, which made the initial surgical intervention and subsequent treatments possible.
