Liver Unit Reports High Success Rate For Children Receiving Living Donor Transplants
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Ninety-six percent of children who received liver transplants from living relatives were still alive five years after surgery. And the 98 percent year one survival rates recorded by the UK specialist unit was higher than international averages, which ranged from 74 percent to 96 percent. The research covers 50 children operated on between 1993 and 2006 by King's College Hospital in London.
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