Boy becomes Japan's 1st heatstroke patient to receive liver.

Japan Weekly Monitor, August, 2003

KYOTO, Aug. 13 Kyodo

A 16-year-old boy who suffered heatstroke and developed liver and kidney failure became last month the first such patient in Japan to receive a liver transplant, Kyoto University Hospital said Wednesday.

The high school boy received a part of his mother's liver, becoming only the fourth heatstroke patient in the world to undergo a liver transplant operation, the hospital said.

The boy and his mother, in her 40s, are now in stable condition. But the boy, who suffered both liver and kidney failure as a result of heatstroke, needs to undergo dialysis for his kidney functions to return to normal, it said.

It was fortunate that the boy received proper treatment at an early stage and that he suffered no brain damage...