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Andrzej K. Buczkowski, MD, FRCSC
Background Liver transplantation has been available in British Columbia since 1989, with a growing number of transplants performed each year. In 2005, 31 liver transplants were performed in BC. Only 10 years later, in... Read More
The first successful human liver transplant was performed by Dr Thomas Starzl and his colleagues in 1968 in Colorado on an 18-month-old child who survived 400 days. Despite improved technical aspects of... Read More