<span itemprop="author">Omar Haque, MD, Khalid Khwaja, MD, Bapu Jena, MD, PhD

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The opportunity cost of the liver organ shortage in the United States

The first five liver transplant recipients were all dead within 23 days. The year was 1963, the surgeon was Dr. Thomas Starzl, and the operations were actually deemed a success for their surgical complexity. Since then, liver transplant (LT) has evolve…