> While the liver is the only human organ known capable of regenerating itself, if you damage yours badly enough for long enough — as some 30 million Americans have — then the only treatment is a transplant.
This is needlessly hostile. Not all liver disease is from alcoholism. I have an autoimmune disease that causes liver failure.
bkgn t1_itirmhw wrote
Reply to The cutting-edge cellular therapies aiming to ease America's organ shortage. Major transplantation surgeries could one day become outpatient procedures. by Sariel007
> While the liver is the only human organ known capable of regenerating itself, if you damage yours badly enough for long enough — as some 30 million Americans have — then the only treatment is a transplant.
This is needlessly hostile. Not all liver disease is from alcoholism. I have an autoimmune disease that causes liver failure.