How do living donor and deceased donor liver transplants compare?
How do living donor and deceased donor liver transplants compare?
In a living donor transplant, the recipient gets part of a liver; in a deceased donor transplant, the patient gets the whole liver, according to liver transplant surgeon Robert Brown, MD, PhD.
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