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Liver transplant saves young woman after heatstroke

Acute liver failure caused by sunbathing in torrid heat

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 7 - A 26-year-old woman who suffered from a rare form of fulminant hepatic failure after sunbathing at her countryside home received an emergency liver transplant at Turin's Molinette Hospital, health officials said Wednesday.
    The young woman from the Piedmont city of Alba lost consciousness while sunbathing and was taken to hospital where she was diagnosed with acute liver failure which made the complex life-saving transplant necessary, the sources explained.
    (ANSA).
   

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