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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One thing a doctor friend once told me is that some organs have literally ZERO healing ability… like the kidneys. Any damage done to them persists for the rest of that organs lifetime. Some have marginal healing, like lungs, that can slowly repair smoking damage over the course of a few years.
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