603520login-checkTransplanted Livers Can Survive Past 100 |
These organs that live for more than a century could raise the age of potential donors, perhaps shortening waits for the life-saving procedure
Your liver could outlive you—even into the triple-digits, new research suggests.
Using the United Network for Organ Sharing’s organ transplant database, scientists assessed the ages of 253,406 livers transplanted between 1990 and 2022. Their analysis revealed that 25 of them had survived for more than 100 years.
Read the full article in Smithsonian Magazine.
603520login-checkTransplanted Livers Can Survive Past 100 |