has there been a liver transplant anywhere?

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juu wanted to know

Answer 1

Quite a few.  There have even been transplants where the donor is alive and only donates a part of their liver; the liver will regrow to sufficient size in both the donor and recipient.

Answer 2

Liver transplant happen frequently, not all the time, you don't see hospitals performing liver transplants everyday, and since a human body only has one liver, only part of the liver is surgically removed and transplanted into the recipient's body, and since liver cell does regrow back, the liver in the donor and the recipient will regrow to normal size after a few month.

Answer 3

Transplants are quite common and are done all the time.

While all surgery is dangerous , transplant surgeries extend the life and heal patients whom would in many cases have certainly died otherwise.

Most of the reputable organizations dedicated to ensuring that transplants can happen are non-profit in nature, this removes the "motivation" of profit as a notion from this sensitive area of medicine.

The reason is that the focus must remain on the patient as well as on the respect for the donor family whom are being asked to must make donation decisions often in the immediate aftermath of the death of the donor, since donations, in the US and most countries (at least) are of an entirely volunentary nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_transplantation
http://www.unos.org - General Tissue and Organ transplants
http://www.mtf.org - Skin, Muscle and Bone transplants

Answer 4

oh yeah, everywhere. The first human liver transplant was done in 1963 by Dr. Thomas Starzl of Denver, Colorado, United States, and by Sir Roy Calne of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Dr. Starzl performed several additional transplants over the next few years before the first short-term success was achieved in 1967 with the first one-year survival posttransplantation

Answer 5

there were 2 men who had liver transplants. one was namedMr. Ward and the surgeon was Benjamin Philosophe MD. PHD.in the UMMC. they are doing well and greatful to the donor. It was a slight chance but done.

Answer 6

happens all the time when someone is in need of an emergency liver transplant due to trauma, cirrhosis of the liver, or other serious conditions. Expensive as hell!

Answer 7

Of course. they can even split a liver between two people since the livewr is the only human organ that can regenerate it's missing parts.

Answer 8

liver transplant done now but they are very expensive off-coarse many limitation are there

Answer 9

Totally evwry wher i go

Answer 10

there's a lot in Philippines