Liver Transplantation

Antioxidant improves donated liver survival rate to more than 90 percent

Researchers from Italy have found that the antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), when injected prior to harvesting of the liver, significantly improves graft survival following transplantation. Results published in the February ...

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Are living liver donors at risk from life-threatening 'near-miss' events?

A study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, reports that donor mortality is about 1 in 500 donors ...

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