Posted on Jun 26, 2022
Scientists Try to Reduce Organ Transplants with Liver Regeneration
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Studies have shown that a liver can regrow itself back to a normal weight even after as much as 90 percent of its tissue has been removed – and nor does it take long to do so. The human liver can re-establish its normal weight within just 15 days. All this makes the liver unique among organs.
Researchers are searching for ways, however, to boost the liver’s regenerative capacity so that transplants aren’t needed so often. They’re also turning their focus to other organs in the body, notably the heart, to see if they can replicate the liver’s capacity for regeneration.
Researchers are searching for ways, however, to boost the liver’s regenerative capacity so that transplants aren’t needed so often. They’re also turning their focus to other organs in the body, notably the heart, to see if they can replicate the liver’s capacity for regeneration.
Scientists Try to Reduce Organ Transplants with Liver Regeneration
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WOW, that is wonderful news to those awaiting a Liver Transplant. I wonder if they are going to be able to take folks who are living donors, remove only a portion of their liver and transplant that into a needy recipient and have both regrow a viable organ?
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
We already do that between family members in some instances. I know of someone who was able to donate one lobe of their liver to a sibling and they are both thriving years later.
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SFC Terry Stinnett
A living donor can generally give 1/3 of their liver to a transplant patient, and both regenerate. It's the overall health, needs of the recipient that determine if the can get a "partial" or require a full liver.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown That's amazing. If they can do this with kidneys also imagine how many lives that would save.
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We shall also be teaching sobriety. So many people that my wife know have kidney and liver failure because of drinking alcohol all the time. My wife is Canadian indigenous. Alcohol is easily converted to sugar in the body and it somehow affects Native Americans more because they sometimes have premature liver and kidney failure not to mention higher propensity of diabetes. I don't have statistical proof of that but going by addict a little evidence of people in my wife's circle of friends and family who die prematurely or have transplants due to their addictions.
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Sgt Jim Belanus is this from just alcohol poisoning kind of like John Bonham of Led Zeppelin and Bon Scott of AC/DC.
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Sgt Jim Belanus a Hispanic friend of family had a son of hers who died in his early thirties. He kept having kidney problems and his doctor told him to stop seeing him. He went to rehab and relapsed. The doctor knew he was dying from alcohol because his organs were failing. The guy didn't care and kept drinking.
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SFC Terry Stinnett
Almost lost my BIL to alcohol-induced liver disease. He got into a 12 step program (required for addition to transplant list) and thru the past year on dialysis etc, he has stayed sober, and his kidneys & liver are now functioning normally. It took him "seeing the light"
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SFC Terry Stinnett I'm glad that person pulled through. One of my mom's friends had a son who was an alcoholic and he kept having severe physical problems but he kept drinking. His doctor told him to stop seeing him because he wasn't going sober. He didn't pass away that much after that because he kept drinking himself to death. His organs shut down.
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