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Originally posted by honeychile
I wish I could give you a medical answer. When we first found out that my brother's liver was damaged, everyone started looking at me, and I read a lot of information on the process. I wish I had retained it. It's not from the liver itself, it's the surgical procedure, that much I can remember. The weird thing is, I've never heard that about other living donor operations, such as kidney or lung.
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As a medical student, I have been taught that donor of liver tissue during a transplant has only about a 1% chance of mortality and that within a couple of weeks, the portion of your liver that was removed regenerates to its original size and you will have normal function.
Also, for kidney transplants, those of us blessed with two functional kidneys because you actually have "more kidney" than you really need. After donating a kidney to someone, you only lose 25% of renal function (as opposed to 50% like one would think). The kidney really is an amazing organ!! (sorry for being such a geek
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I personally plan to donate my organs after my death. There are such enormous lists for people waiting for a chance to live, I would love to give them an opportunity. But one thing I will never, EVER do is donate my body to a medical school for their anatomy course. Please believe me, you couldnt imagine some of the stuff we do just to get a "better look." We cut so many pieces up and off, we had a bit box so that families could receive ALL of their dead family member's body back once we were done
I think eventually, anatomy will be reduced to schools only having some bodies for students to physically visualize, but alot of dissection will be learned online, so the number of bodies needed for science will actually reduce... some schools already teach anatomy that way.
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