You have about 300% as much liver as you need according to Dr. Neha Pathak the Medical Editor at WebMD.com.
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Currently, only about 4% of liver transplants are done with living donors who give about 40% of their liver to someone in need.
This means that you can safely donate up to two-thirds of your liver to another person. The part of your liver that is removed will grow back in about 8 weeks.
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Dr. Sylvester Black, a liver transplant specialist and associate professor of surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus clears up some common misunderstandings about liver transplants. (WebMD.com Nov/Dec 2019)
- You can survive if one lobe of your liver is removed – the liver can regenerate.
- Most liver transplant centers welcome donors as old as 55.
- Your recipient’s health insurance likely will cover living-donor benefits
- Recovery will require you to miss about 4-6 weeks of work
- With a living-donor transplant, you can choose a mutually acceptable date for the procedure to be performed
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You may be able to give the precious gift of life.
