Laparoscopic surgery has made living-donor liver transplants easier. (Credit: CBS 2)
Method Of Surgery Means Shorter Hospital Stays, Less Severe Scars
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A major development in liver transplantation could make more livers available, and provide a much easier way for living donors to give the gift of life.
As CBS 2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported Monday, there are slightly over 6,000 liver transplants conducted each year in the U.S. But more than twice that many patients are on the waiting list.
The result is that thousands of patients a year either die or become too sick as they wait for a liver.
Living donors solve that problem, but must undergo a major operation to do so. But a new method of surgery has made it much easier.
Gail Renner and Kevin McCullough love to travel the world and call it their hobby. They have been together for seven years, but the last few months, by far, were the most eventful.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/18/laparoscopic-liver-donation-could-facilitate-more-transplants/
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