Surgeons don't remove half of a kidney, so you must mean can someone live with a half-functioning kidney. Yes, a person can live with one kidney only functioning at half capacity. The other kidney picks up the workload. However, if the other kidney begins failing, the person will need dialysis to live.
yes you can. the liver is the only organ that can regenerate.
YES YOU CAN!!your liver is a organ that is able to regenerate its self which means it can grow the other half on its own! amazing right?!?
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In liver donations from live donors, only half the liver is used. Both the transplanted part and the remaining part will grow and return to about the same weight/size as before in some weeks time.
No a person cannot live without a liver
The liver is behind your right front ribs
Biliary atresia is the most common lethal liver disease in children, occurring once every 10,000-15,000 live births. Half of all liver transplants are done for this reason.
Yes, in fact, donating a liver makes you live longer!
Hemihepatectomy is the medical term meaning surgical removal of half or a lobe of the liver.
growths from the liver, 34% will live at least five years. Even more encouraging is that of the 34% of people who live at least five years after surgery, half will go on to live 10 or more years and be cured of colon cancer liver metastasis.
A human being cannot live more than a few minutes without a functioning liver. During a liver transplant operation, a machine substitutes the function of the liver
You Cant Live Without Your Liver!
they live in the liver
The liver starts to fail only when more than half of it is damaged
the liver fluke worm lives in the liver and the bile ducts of domestic animals and humans