Record #:

4172

Author(s):

Baragona, Steve

Abstract:

The demand for livers to transplant is great; however, donors are in short supply. Fifteen percent of those on transplant waiting lists die before a liver becomes available. For the first time in the state, doctors at UNC Hospitals used a new approach - a living-related, adult-to-adult transplant. A daughter donated to her ailing sixty-seven-year-old mother. Both recovered. Doctors say this technique will supply up to one-third of the nation's needs.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 15 Issue 3, Spring 1999, p3, il

Subject(s):

Liver--Transplantation--Chapel Hill