India, Oct. 29 -- A week before his wedding on February 26, Andheri resident Jitin Shirke, 30, developed jaundice, while complications relating to autoimmune liver cirrhosis resurfaced. Doctors said his body had rejected the liver transplanted when he was just 11 years old.

In July, Shirke underwent a second liver transplant operation at Jaslok Hospital, which announced the surgery on Wednesday. It was Jaslok's first-ever second liver transplant for the same patient.

The surgery was unique for Shirle as well. In both transplants, Shirke's donors were his parents. Whereas his father had donated the left lobe of his liver the first time around, it was Shirke's mother who stepped forward this time.

Doctors said the left lobe of the liver ...