How UMMC Performed Liver Transplant For Youngest Baby Ever
Associate Professor Dr Koh Peng Soon, Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre | Professor Dr Shireen Anne Nah, Paediatric Surgeon, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre | Professor Dr Ina Ismiarti Shariffudin, Paediatric Anaesthesiologist, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre
14-Jan-26 16:00
Embed Podcast
You can share this podcast by copying this HTML to your clipboard and pasting into your blog or web page.
Close
A multidisciplinary team at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre successfully performed a liver transplant on a four-month-old baby boy in November 2025. The baby, weighing just 6.2kg, was the youngest and lightest recipient recorded in the country. We speak to some of the surgeons and the anaesthesiologist from the team to find out why this was one for the history books, and how they hope to see transplant medicine in Malaysia develop.
Image credit: Prof Shireen Anne Nah
Produced by: Tee Shiao Eek
Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek
This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.
Categories: managing disease, medical advances
Tags: health and living, the bigger picture, liver transplant, organ transplant, organ donation, liver disease,