alcoholic liver disease
Liver Transplants: A Life-Changing Surgery
The liver is truly a miracle organ, but complications that can happen in the span of someone’s lifetime can affect the liver’s ability to function properly. Imperative to survival, a damaged or failing liver is fatal with nearly two million deaths worldwide attributed to liver disease (1). Thanks to the incredible advances in modern medicine, liver transplants are possible for individuals in need of functional livers, and in the year 2023 alone, over 10,000 liver transplants were performed in the United States (2).
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