Liver Transplant (cont.)
Medical Author:
Steve Guillen, MD
Coauthor:
Martin Black, MD, FRCP
Coauthor:
Grace Thomas, MD
Coauthor:
Robert M McNamara, MD, FAAEM
Medical Editor:
Michael D Burg, MD
Medical Editor:
Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD
Medical Editor:
James Ungar, MD
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Liver Transplant SymptomsPeople who have liver disease may have many of the following problems:
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Research into the possibility of liver transplantation (LT) started before the 1960s with the pivotal baseline work of Thomas Starzl in Chicago and Boston, where the initial LT techniques were researched in dogs.
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