Mysore/Mysuru: JSS Medical College and Hospital has achieved a milestone by performing living donor liver transplantation in a 22-year-old adult, who was suffering from cirrhosis of liver. This was disclosed by Dr. (Col.) M. Dayananda, Director, JSS Hospitals, at a press meet in city on Tuesday.
There are two types of liver transplantation — LDLT and DDLT. Living Donor Liver Transplantation (LDLT) is a type of liver transplantation wherein a part of the liver is taken from a healthy donor and transplanted into an individual with end stage liver disease. In DDLT, liver is taken from a brain-dead person and is then transplanted into a patient who requires liver transplantation.
