A Swedish woman received six new organs in a multiple transplant operation, which set a new medical record in Northern Europe, hospital officials said on Tuesday.

The woman, who had been suffering from a severe intestinal disease, received a new liver, stomach, duodenum, pancreas, small intestine and kidney from one donor after a 20-hour operation on Monday.

The patient, only identified as a woman in her forties, was in stable condition. And if no rejection happens, she is expected to survive the operation, said a spokesman for Sahlgrenska hospital in Goteborg, 475 kilometers southwest of Stockholm. Sahlgrenska Hospital has conducted seven other multi-organ transplant operations since 1998, when a five-year-old girl received five new organs in one operation.

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