Organ Transplants Support Group

It is a relative new procedure. It started out being done with children as recipients. It is not perfected yet and is still rare and risky to the donors. The person on the list needs to ask thier transplant center about it.

I don't remember the members name but there is someone that her daughter donated part of her liver and it worked fine. In fact family is the best donor match if you can get by with just a partial transplant of the liver. If I run across her again I will let you know her profile name. She was probably on the cirrhosis group....

It is true. Not all transplant centers do it though. They also do partial living donor pancreas transplants at some centers.

We asked our transplant center about this and they told us they had stopped any type of living donor liver transplants at their center simply because they were so dangerous for the donor.

LIVING DONOR transplants have become very common in Australia. But the donor must have some emotional relationship to you. The stats I've seen report good safety profiles for both living relatede donors and living unrelated donors. But like all operations it carries the risks of misadventure and infection. But rates of complications for the donors are low because they can't be donors without a full medical workup. They won't accept them. I am waiting for my ex-hubby to put on a bit more weight before they'll let him give me one of his kidneys. Lots of good vibes for your future, Mindy xxx

okay, this is how it was for US. at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester NY, they do more live donor transplants than anywhere else with the highest success rate anywhere (it has been 4.3 years since mine and I will have to dig thru paperwork to get the stats cuz I forget...) BUT, the risk for my daughter was approximately 1% after all the testing as she was a textbook perfect candidate for splitting her liver. She was in such perfect health that the team was truly amazed and they call her "Hero" and "BraveHeart" to this day. She had no difficulty with her surgery or recovery and she proudly shows her mercedes cut scar to anyone who has the guts to look at it - she has a lily tattoo on her tummy so the surgeons painstakingly gave her almost 3 hours of plastic surgery to stitch her back up and line up her lily vines as perfectly as they could - her scar is thin and pale and beautiful... I had staples, so mine is big and beautiful! Plus I had to have reconstructive surgery to fix some minor bile duct leakages, but all in all it was a tremendous success and they are still going strong at "Strong" with live donor transplants. In fact, they are opening a facility in Boston as well, so it will be easier for my daughter to continue her lifetime followup as she lives in Boston herself!