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Originally Posted by FIREWALL
They do liver transplants all the time. That asshat actor Larry Hagman had 2. The first one failed because he went back to heavy drinking.
It's the Pancreas that can't be transplanted.
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It's not that they do them, it's that you only have one liver, and you need a match. So if it fails, you either have a candidate liver pretty much NOW, or you are toast.
With kidneys you have 2, and might retain some function on one longer than the other, AND they can dialyze you and keep you alive with NO kidneys
indefinitely. Having no kidneys is not a death sentence, it's a sentence to dialysis until they match you. A
far better prognosis than end-stage liver disease.