When One Person Donates Part of Their Liver to Someone Else

Understanding Living-Donor Liver Transplant Surgery

What Is Living Liver Donation?

Who Can Give One?

Ways to Be a Donor

Benefits and Risks for Donor and Recipient

What to Know if You Need a Liver

Steps to Prep for the Operation

Life After the Transplant

What Happens During the Surgery?

What It’s Like to Donate

What It’s Like to Receive One

A Donor's Recovery Timeline

Life on Anti-Rejection Medication

Just the Facts About the Procedure

Be Safe in the Hospital During COVID-19

Precautions to Take Post-Surgery in Age of COVID-19

A step-by-step description of a living liver transplant from the donor to the recipient.

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