Complications common for living liver donors

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Thirty-eight percent of liver donors will experience a

complication with their surgical procedure, and although in most cases the

severity is low grade, a significant proportion of patients will experience a

severe or even life-threatening complication, new research shows.

Prior

studies that have assessed the complications that living liver donors can

develop have been confined to single medical centers, according to the report

in the journal Gastroenterology. The present study

addressed this limitation by using data on complications for donors enrolled in

the nine-center " Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort

Study. "

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_69053.html

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