The Derek Janiak Hepatobiliary Forum
The liver is the largest internal organ in humans and the only one that will grow back if part of it is removed. It is responsible for over 500 different functions in collaboration with other organs. Pfft. Overachiever.
🎤She’s beauty, she grace, she’s queen of the abdominal space🎶. 5 years ago yesterday, (I posted about it 5 years ago today) the nurse from the transplant team called to tell me my blood and my liver were a match for Derek and we were a go for transplant. Five years is a long time …
I looked up some statistics on the number of live donor transplants by year in the United States. There have been a total of 5,032 live donor transplants. For reference, this is 4% of the total number of liver transplants (126,142) since 1988. As you can see, the first live liver donation occurred in 1989 …
The Derek Janiak Hepatobiliary Forum 