KARACHI, March 16: Liver transplant has progressed at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) as two more children have added to the series, said a press release of the SIUT here on Tuesday.

Following the first successful case of liver transplantation in November last year, offering baby Sohaib a fresh lease of life, two more children - Nighat (nine months) and Qurat-ul-Ain (nine years) - underwent the procedure at SIUT only recently.

The press statement said in collaboration with a team from the King's College, London, led by surgeon Nigel Heaton, Prof Adibul Hasan Rizvi and his colleagues performed two liver transplants only a few days back.

Baby Nighat was said to be born with biliary atresia and had a grim future till she received a gift of life - in the form of a piece of her mother's liver - at the SIUT.

Almost similar was the case of Qurat-ul-Ain, coming all the way from Mirpur Khas with a condition "Budd Chiari Syndrome", in which the liver function is grossly abnormal since birth of the affected person. She too was the recipient of a portion of her mother's liver. -APP