Transplanting from a living donor!
A 69-year-old women receives a right lobe living donor liver transplantation..!! This life saving procedure used 67% from a healthy,living donor liver to treat NASH(non-alcoholic steatohepatitis). Living donor liver transplants are one invaluable way we are dealing with the shortage of donor organs needed... In adults,60-70% of the livers right lobe can b used or 30-40% of the left lobe.. The procedure,performed after the after the deseased liver has been removed,is possible because the liver regenerates or grows.The livers unique ability to regenerate itself-combined with technological advances improved,immunosuppressive regimens,tissue preservations,reduction of infectious deseases and better postoperative management..allows more people to be donors,and even more to be recepients. Regeneration happens over a short period,possibly days to weeks and certainly within eight(8) weeks.when surgeons remove a piece of a donors liver,, the part that remains grows again quickly to its original size...
