Why is it possible to perform a liver transplant using just a small part of a donor’s liver, but for other organs (kidney, heart, etc) the donor would have to donate the whole organ?

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Why is it possible to perform a liver transplant using just a small part of a donor’s liver, but for other organs (kidney, heart, etc) the donor would have to donate the whole organ?

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I mean come on….just look at the organs. What should a part of a heart be able to do? If you dont transplant the structures that are needed for the Organ to do its Job….then how should it work? The liver has the same strucures everywhere in it. All it needs to work is blood.

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