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- Title
A Trial of Patience.
- Authors
Lewis, Christopher
- Abstract
I was going to tell the new transplant team that I did not care about the risk - I wanted to pursue solely a liver transplant and abandon the idea of a multivisceral transplant. For twelve years after this initial transplant, I was in great health, my transplant team was happy with how I was doing, and I just required annual checkups after a while. I had put all my hopes into this portogram having a favorable result, and providing the surgeons with the confidence that a liver transplant could be performed instead of the multivisceral transplant. There was still some risk with doing an isolated liver transplant because I was told although the portogram results showed the portal vein looked patent with good blood flow, until the surgeons actually visualized it during the transplant, no one could be one hundred percent sure.
- Subjects
PATIENCE; MINIMALLY invasive procedures
- Publication
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 2, p126
- ISSN
2157-1732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nib.2022.0026