Kyoto team starts last in set of 'domino' liver transplants

Kyoto team starts last in set of 'domino' liver transplants

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University Hospital doctors begin late Feb. 21 the latter of a series of ''domino'' liver transplant operations, after having received a liver removed from a patient some four hours earlier in Tokyo, about 500 kilometers away. This photo, provided by the hospital, shows Prof. Koichi Tanaka (2nd from L) and other doctors dividing the organ into two parts in order to transplant them into two men with critical liver diseases.

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