Q&A: First paired liver donation at Mayo a ‘significant first step’ to improving care
The success of Mayo Clinic’s first paired living-donor liver transplantation may pave the way for expanded access and more “timely transplant” for patients in need, Timucin Taner, MD, PhD, told Healio. “At any given time, about 10,000 people are on the liver transplant waiting list in the U.S.,” Taner, chair of the division of transplant surgery at Mayo Clinic, said.