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  2. 19-year-old gets new liver from living donor: 'I'm not going ...

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    Earlier this year, Conner learned that he would be getting a new liver at Henry Ford Hospital – thanks to an anonymous living donor. The 19-year-old's disease caused him to develop jaundice ...

  3. Liver transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Liver transplantation is a treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure, although availability of donor organs is a major limitation. The most common technique is orthotopic transplantation, in which the native liver is removed and replaced by the donor organ in the same anatomic position as the original liver.

  4. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    First Heart and Lung Transplant. Brenda Barber. 1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant. 1984. 10 years. First human hand transplant. Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard. Clint Hallam. The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001.

  5. Organ transplantation - Wikipedia

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    In living donors, the donor remains alive and donates a renewable tissue, cell, or fluid (e.g., blood, skin), or donates an organ or part of an organ in which the remaining organ can regenerate or take on the workload of the rest of the organ (primarily single kidney donation, partial donation of liver, lung lobe, small bowel).

  6. Living liver donor reflects on 'incredible' experience ... - AOL

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    Aug. 6—ROCHESTER — Tom Miler is a generous man. He regularly donates blood and platelets. In 2004, he donated a kidney to his father. A few years ago, he underwent surgery to donate his marrow ...

  7. Liver - Wikipedia

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    Liver allografts for transplant usually come from donors who have died from fatal brain injury. Living donor liver transplantation is a technique in which a portion of a living person's liver is removed (hepatectomy) and used to replace the entire liver of the recipient. This was first performed in 1989 for pediatric liver transplantation.

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