Split Liver Transplants As Safe As Whole Organ For Young Children

Monday, June 10, 2013 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

When a liver from a deceased adult or adolescent donor is split into two separate portions for transplantation, with the smaller portion going to a young child and the larger to an adult, the child will benefit as much if they had received a whole organ from a donor close to their size, according to a paper in Liver Transplantation.       read more

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