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  2. Liver transplantation - Wikipedia

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    Liver transplantation is a potential treatment for acute or chronic conditions which cause irreversible and severe ("end-stage") liver dysfunction. [4] Since the procedure carries relatively high risks, is resource-intensive, and requires major life modifications after surgery, it is reserved for dire circumstances.

  3. Stereotactic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Stereotactic surgery is a minimally invasive form of surgical intervention that makes use of a three-dimensional coordinate system to locate small targets inside the body and to perform on them some action such as ablation, biopsy, lesion, injection, stimulation, implantation, radiosurgery (SRS), etc.

  4. Image-guided surgery - Wikipedia

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    Image-guided surgery has been applied to procedures involving on multiple organs such as the brain, spine, pelvis/hip, knee, lung, breast, liver, and prostate. [ 7 ] Part of the wider field of computer-assisted surgery , image-guided surgery can take place in hybrid operating rooms using intraoperative imaging.

  5. Organ procurement - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, when Jobs received his liver transplant, the average wait time for liver transplantation in the United States for a patient with a MELD score of 38 (a metric of severity of liver disease) was about 1 year. In some regions, the wait time was as short as 4 months, while in others, it was more than 3 years. [83]

  6. Liver support system - Wikipedia

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    A liver support system or diachysis is a type of therapeutic device to assist in performing the functions of the liver. Such systems focus either on removing the accumulating toxins (liver dialysis), or providing additional replacement of the metabolic functions of the liver through the inclusion of hepatocytes to the device (bioartificial liver device).

  7. Portal vein embolization - Wikipedia

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    Portal vein embolization (PVE) is a preoperative procedure performed in interventional radiology to initiate hypertrophy of the anticipated future liver remnant a couple weeks prior to a major liver resection procedure. The procedure involves injecting the right or left portal vein with embolic material to occlude portal blood flow.

  8. Probe of Jackson’s suspended heart transplant program ... - AOL

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    The personnel shake-up at Jackson’s heart transplant program comes as the Richmond, Virginia-based organ network chartered by Congress in 1984 and funded by federal dollars to maintain a ...

  9. Organ procurement organization - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina, South Carolina: LifeSharing: California: LifeSource Upper Midwest Organ Procurement Organization: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin: Lifeline of Ohio Organ Procurement Agency: Ohio, West Virginia: Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland: Maryland: Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency: Louisiana: Mid-America Transplant