Living-Donor Liver Transplant
Current as of: December 12, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine
For a living-donor liver transplant, a healthy person donates a portion of his or her liver to the transplant recipient. The recipient’s liver is removed and replaced with this part of the donor’s liver. The recipient’s and donor’s surgeries are carried out at the same time in different operating rooms. Both the portion…