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Some patients with severely damaged livers may not need a transplant as their own organ is actually regrowing, say doctors at a hospital in London.
They made the discovery by looking at a rare group of patients given a transplant while their own damaged liver is left in the body.
Sometimes the original liver recovers.
A study, in the American Journal of Transplantation, suggests doctors can predict which patients do not need a transplant as their liver is healing.
King's College Hospital has a leading liver transplant centre and is one of few places to perform "auxiliary transplants".
They are performed in sudden cases of liver failure caused by overdoses or viral infections, rather than the long-term damage caused by alcohol abuse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22399717
They made the discovery by looking at a rare group of patients given a transplant while their own damaged liver is left in the body.
Sometimes the original liver recovers.
A study, in the American Journal of Transplantation, suggests doctors can predict which patients do not need a transplant as their liver is healing.
King's College Hospital has a leading liver transplant centre and is one of few places to perform "auxiliary transplants".
They are performed in sudden cases of liver failure caused by overdoses or viral infections, rather than the long-term damage caused by alcohol abuse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22399717