If some of the waiting kids don’t receive a liver soon, they could become too sick to undergo the surgery, meaning they’d be out of treatment options.
Children’s Hospital Colorado is asking healthy adults to consider giving a piece of their livers to get kids off the transplant list.
Typically, that list fluctuates between four and 10 kids at any time, but fewer livers have been available from deceased donors this summer, which created a backlog, said Dr. Megan Adams, surgical director of pediatric living donor transplantation at Children’s.If some of the waiting kids don’t receive a liver soon, they could become too sick to undergo the surgery, meaning they’d be out of treatment options, Adams said.
Over the last decade, the number of children on the waitlist for livers in Colorado at some point in any given year has ranged from 15 to 31, according to Donor Alliance. People can donate two organs while still alive: kidneys and livers. Humans can survive with only a partial liver, so the recipient can be cured without harming the donor. The liver, in an average-sized person, is roughly the size of a football and weighs about 3 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The amount that needs to be taken depends on the size of the recipient; a baby would require tissue about the size of a small Belgian waffle, Adams said.
The liver regenerates if part of it is removed, making the process safe for donors, Adams said. There isn’t much long-term data on outcomes, though a
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