One of Hong Kong's most eminent transplant surgeons is busily sketching on a yellow notepad in the staff canteen on the second floor of Queen Mary Hospital (QMH). "Live donor liver transplant is a lot like jazz," says Professor Chan See-ching, carefully. "It's best if you improvise." The chief of liver transplantation at QMH is describing the groundbreaking operation undertaken earlier this summer to save the life of 59-year-old Cheng Chi-ming. Cheng had been at death's door in the hospital's intensive care unit before a 40-plus medical team spent more than 10 hours utilising partial organs from two of his daughters in one simultaneous live liver donor transplant (LLDT). Chan decided to...
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