What are split liver transplants so rare?
There are not very many done nationally. There are only about 100 a year in the entire United States. It requires that we get a perfect cadaver organ. The organ has to be of perfect quality. The next most important factor is to have the degree of expertise and experience on the surgical team in order to go out and split the organ and then perform two simultaneous transplants. We have that here, but most liver transplants don’t.
