Transplanting from a living donor!
A 69-year-old woman 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’re dealing with the shortage of donor organs needed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In adults, 60-70% of the liver’s right lobe can be used or 30-40% of the left lobe. The procedure, performed after the diseased liver has been removed, is possible because the liver regenerates or grows. The liver's unique ability to regenerate itself - combined with technological advances, improved immunosuppressive regimens, tissue preservation, reduction of infectious disease, and better postoperative management - allows more people to be donors, and even more to be recipients. Regeneration happens over a short period, possibly days to weeks and certainly within eight weeks. When surgeons remove a piece of the donor's liver, the part that remains grows back quickly to its original size. Photo by @clevelandclinic
Cure for hep c is almost $100k. Hopefully this transplant will be rarely needed in 15 yrs.
An amazing organ...split liver transplants can also be from parent to child☺
Isn’t she a bit older to be approved for a transplant!? She must be the healthiest 69 year old living good gosh
Isn't right or wrong on that age their is possible to replacement organs