Technical Variant Liver Transplant Donors
The Liver Care Center team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center performs whole liver transplantation and technical variant liver transplantation. (Technical variant liver transplantation includes a living related donor, reduced-size and split liver transplantation.) Learn more about where transplant organs come from.
Reduced liver transplants involve using only a piece, or segment, of a whole liver. For split liver transplants, the liver from someone who has died is separated into two equal halves. If that adult liver is a good match for two children on the waiting list, this allows for each part to be transplanted.
At Cincinnati Children's, the last 25 liver transplants were:
Last updated January 2007
