Almost 115,000 people are on the transplant waiting list.
Most of them need a kidney or liver.
On average, a patient can wait 239 days for a match, if they’re lucky!
Statistics show about 3,000 people on that list die each year waiting to receive a liver.
Now, a new, less invasive transplant may help bring those numbers down and save more lives.
Courtney Hunter explains in Healthy Living.
Five percent of people who undergo a liver transplant receive the organ from a living donor.
The liver is the only organ that can regenerate.
It takes six to eight weeks for a healthy liver to grow back to its original size.
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