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Magnetic surgery team successfully treats a patient with biliary tract disease from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Updated: Jan 20, 2025
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A 67-year-old male patient, Ganbold (a pseudonym), from Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, was diagnosed with liver cancer two years ago. To save the life of Ganbold, Julia (a pseudonym), the daughter of this patient, donated 65% of her liver. On May 13, 2022, Ganbold underwent a living donor liver transplantation in a local hospital in Mongolia. In September, 2024, the patient began to develop yellow and itchy skin. Examination in the local hospital found biliary anastomotic stricture.

Due to severe biliary stricture, he has undergone ERCP for four times in a local hospital in Mongolia, but the symptoms of biliary stricture were not effectively treated. To resolve biliary obstruction, percutaneous transhepatic biliary puncture was performed and a drainage tube was inserted to let bile fluid outflow, and a large amount of bile fluid failed to enter the intestine to help digestion, leading to his poor appetite. In the past 6 months, his weight has declined by nearly 10 kg. Julia, the daughter of the patient, inquired about effective treatment and finally sought for solutions in the First Affiliated Hospital (FAH) of Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU).

In FAH, Professor Lyu Yi led the team of Sun Hao, Zhang Xufeng and Li Yu to formulate an explicit and thorough treatment plan for Ganbold, and decided to adopt magnetic compression technology to treat the patient's biliary stricture.

On December 13, 2024, The team of Professor Sun Hao and Professor Li Yu successfully performed ERCP+MCA (magnetic compression anastomosis) for this patient. After the operation, the patient was recovered well. Reexamination showed that the magnet was stably attached at the correct position, and his disease condition was gradually improved. On January 9, 2025, Mr. Ganbold underwent ERCP+endoscopic biliary stent implantation again, the magnet was removed and the stent was implanted in the biliary tract. The operation was successfully completed. Biliary tract stricture was treated and the external biliary drainage catheter was also removed.

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Julia, the patient's daughter, highlighted that “magnetic surgery technology is so amazing! When I return to Mongolia, I will promote the magnetic surgery technology, hoping that more patients like my father can know this technology and receive proper treatment using this technology.”

The patient's family shows the magnet removed from the body.

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