Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: Team UC leads figures for liver transplants with living donors in Latin America
Share In May, the Hospital Clínico performed the 33rd liver transplant surgery among adults, a procedure that has reduced the waiting lists of patients who need an organ in Chile. Without a living donor, almost 40 percent of them die before reaching the ward. Raúl Morales was twelve when he told his mother, Rosa Pino, diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, that he would donate her liver. But no one paid much attention to him at the time because, he says, “you couldn’t either.” Rosa was part of the list of patients in Chile who wait for years for an organ from a deceased donor.
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