How someone’s part of liver can be given to someone else?

Question

If the liver is one complex organ, how can part of it be chopped down, and sewed? to the recipient?

In: Biology

Answer 1

A kidney is a complex organ. Lots of tubes, lots of layers, lots of little structures.

A liver is just like a big slab of organ. There’s no separate section with different jobs, there’s no layers and membranes and tubes. Any one section of liver tissue is doing the same thing.

so the liver can be cut into parts and as long as there is appropriate blood flow, that liver hunk will keep doing liver things to the blood flowing through.