You might have seen or heard tales about transplant chains, also called paired donations. This is when a dwelling donor will not be a match for a selected recipient however nonetheless agrees to donate, setting off a sequence response of transplants. Most of those paired donations contain the kidney. Because most individuals have two kidneys and often can get by with one simply nice, donating the opposite is an choice. Far much less widespread is a paired liver transplant.
Recently, surgical groups at Mayo Clinic accomplished their first paired liver transplant. But you is perhaps asking your self, if an individual solely has one liver, how are you going to be a dwelling donor to begin this chain?
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