'Today I'm a new man'.When he is discharged from hospital, Steve Swanepoel hopes to ride a bicycle for the first time in nearly 30 years. 'I would like to cycle and jog. I was not able to do that before,' said a smiling Swanepoel from his bed in the Wits Donald Gordon Donald Gordon is a South African businessman and philanthropist. The Royal Opera House and Wales Millennium Centre received a donation of £20 million payable over five years from the leading London based South African businessman Donald Gordon. Medical Centre (DGMC) in Parktown. 'Today I'm a new man.' The 58-year-old father of five from Bloemfontein was a lifelong haemophiliac--until a liver transplant liver transplant Hepatic transplant Transplant surgery A procedure that replaces a cancer conquered, metabolically defeated, or substance subjugated liver with one no longer required by its owner, many of whom donate same after an MVA Diseases requiring transplant cured his haemophilia. Swanepoel is the first haemophiliac Noun 1. haemophiliac - someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding bleeder, haemophile, hemophile, hemophiliac diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness to undergo an organ transplant organ transplant: see transplantation, medical. in South Africa. 'The thing you learn is: you can do it,' said Professor Russell Britz, who led the transplant team at DGMC. Britz said it was known that a new liver would cure haemophilia, although this is not used as treatment. 'The transplant was obviously done for the hepatitis, not for the haemophilia.' It's the 107th liver transplant the unit has done. |
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