Liver Transplant - Drs. Cherqui and Kluger

Daniel Cherqui, M.D., the Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, and Michael D. Kluger, M.D., a physician at the Center, discuss liver transplantation - both deceased donor transplant where a full liver is taken from a deceased donor and transplanted into a recipient, and living donor transplant where a portion of the liver is taken from a living donor and transplanted into a recipient.

The liver has a unique ability to re-generate itself. Both the donor and recipient's partial liver will grow to full size - usually within a few weeks.

You can learn more about Dr. Cherqui at:

http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/dcherqui1/index.html

You can learn more about Dr. Kluger at:

http://www.weillcornell.org/physician/mkluger/index

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Science & Technology

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• Daniel Cherqui
• Michael Kluger
• liver transplant
• living donor
• deceased donor