Comment preview: Someone Steve Jobs' physical size and condition would have needed a whole organ liver transplant, a partial liver transplant would not have worked for him. Partial liver transplants from living donors only work on smaller sized men, women and young adults. ....

Comment preview: This is an interesting question. I don't believe that this has actually been done (but would like to hear if anybody knows that's it has!), so this answer is (educated) speculation. The process is called living donor liver transplantation. A portion of the ....

Comment preview: Frankly, if he weren't incredibly rich, Steve Jobs would already be dead. He had to game the transplant system to get a liver. He had liver cancer, with a nigh-guaranteed recurrence. For pretty much everyone else, this means they won't be getting a donor ....

Comment preview: According to the OP it would have. I have my doubts personally. Not to sound overly harsh but his brother was going to die it was simply a matter of when. In a best case scenario his brother would require constant treatment including likely liver transpl ....

Comment preview: Okay, so my mom is an expert in liver disease, SPECIFICALLY complications in liver regeneration relating to bone marrow dysfunction. I remember this case very clearly because it is *exactly* her academic area of interest. Everybody loves to hate on Cigna, ....

Comment preview: The bloodiest surgeries I have ever encountered are liver transplants by far. These operations can have *extreme* amounts of blood loss. The reason why liver transplants can be so bloody are: First, almost all of the proteins involved in clotting are manuf ....

Comment preview: Finally, something on Reddit that I'm actually an expert in. I am an analyst in a large transplant clinic on the west coast. My thoughts are that this story is too vague, and doesn't have enough details. It wasn't clear if they are cutting funding for ....

Comment preview: I can 100% assure you that the vast majority of doctors do not know how leukemia would affect a "fucking" liver transplant. The problem described is *not* being "unable to produce sufficient blood" but rather being unable to produce sinusoidal endothelial ....

Comment preview: Organs don't travel well. So they are normally kept in-state. Kidneys will sometimes be transported across state lines by plane if there is a need and enough time. Kidneys can typically spend about 20 hours outside the body, in contrast the lungs will l ....

Comment preview: [Straight up stealing this post](http://www.poe-news.com/forums/sp.php?pi=1002544768) > This guy is an organ thief. > He used a loophole in the UNOS registration system, which has since been closed, to register for a liver transplant in every transpl ....

Comment preview: Ok, so I have a fairly strong opinion on this. I have been hospitalized for 4 months over the last 2 years and have been on a liver transplant list in Edmonton. My liver failure is caused by a hereditary blood condition that is causing blood clots to form ....

Comment preview: Well, I am 23 years old right now and I am suspected to have a disease that will likely cause me to die before I hit 40 if I actually have it. The examination is in 2 weeks, and until then, I kind of have to be rational: The odds are against me having the ....

Comment preview: Does he? He was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer 7 years ago. A type of cancer that is curable/treatable. If he had regular pancreatic cancer he would not be alive today. He received a liver transplant 2.5 years ago suggesting the cancer had ....

Comment preview: Sorry don't know how to edit but this is the result of 4 liver transplants, 3 hernia repairs and a bowel obstruction. 11 surgeries in all! Edit again: I was diagnosed with a rare liver disease Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis when I was 11 back in 1999. Had ....

Comment preview: There are lots of guidelines you have to follow to get a transplant. Now, since they decided to not follow guidelines, two people are dead instead of just one. The heart should have gone to who was going to follow the guidelines. My mom got a liver transpl ....

Comment preview: I often tell families of patients who are nearing end of life that we can to wonderful, terrible things. Extending life for the sake of extending a heartbeat is not always in the patient's best interest. Without knowing more specifics, as a nurse who worke ....

Comment preview: My brother was born with a super rare disease that had a shitload of conflicting health problems; one of which being that his spleen was so large that it sequestered the large majority of his white blood cells. By the time he was 20, his spleen was 32 cm ....

Comment preview: My mom is in need of a liver transplant. There is a relatively rare procedure performed for partial live liver donation. She has been a social worker all her life and spent it serving others so she refuses to ask anyone to donate. Our family and extended f ....

Comment preview: Inbetwixt all of this righteous internet-rage, let me point out an alternative article on this same subject: http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/11/marijuana_liver_transplant_ced.php I am not an expert on all the aspects of liver transplants, however I ....

Comment preview: December 29, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A Chicago father got in shape- fast- to save the life of his baby daughter, who needed a liver transplant. Eduardo Camargo's youngest daughter, Jazlyn, was born with a condition called biliary atresia that left her need ....

Comment preview: There is evidence that gender-mismatch (the term used in the literature) may be associated with higher rates of rejection. Whether this effect is due to intrinsic differences in the donated organ (for example due to modifications made by sex-specific hormo ....

Comment preview: >I'm curious, why didn't you notice her not in out patient recovery? She gave you half her liver and you didn't notice her not in the hospital with you? Yea.. I work in a hospital, and this whole story sounds super sketchy. There are very few things th ....

Comment preview: When the liver craps out as in cirrhosis, its synthetic function really takes a nose dive. One of the proteins it makes, [albumin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum_albumin), usually circulates in the bloodstream and generates an [oncotic pressure](https ....

Comment preview: Ok, I just talked to our dedicated liver transplant financial counselor. I actually work in the largest such facility on the west coast. If you qualified for medical/medicaid then you could conceivable have your transplant covered. This may involve hi ....

Comment preview: Steve Jobs got a liver transplant because he had a private plane. Jobs initial pancreatic cancer was a very rare form that was very treatable. He had surgery and was cured. The only reason it came back was he waited too long (tried to diet and meditate i ....