Heart Transplant Recipient Abandons Her Healthy Liver In Historic First : ScienceAlert
On the rare occasion that a patient's heart and liver are both swapped for a second-hand set from an organ donor, it's because something has gone critically wrong with each.While 31-year-old Washington state resident Adriana Rodriguez met all of the requirements for a heart transplant, her liver was humming along just fine. Nonetheless, surgeons swapped it out in a two-for-one deal in a historic first.A team of medical researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in the US made the landmark decision…