Two-thirds of liver transplant patients at a Pittsburgh hospital have had serious complications during a three-year period and the rate of complications only worsened as time went on, says a study on Pennsylvania liver transplants.
The liver-transplant complication rate at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is twice as bad as the national average.
Though the hospital’s 91 percent one-year survival rate meet national standards, the rate of complications is alarming, said authors of the study.
And while all liver donors between March 2003 and November 2006 were still alive, more than 10 percent of them also had serious complications, said the Associated Press.
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