CHICAGO - Doctors at Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital say they successfully performed transplants on two patients using segments from the same liver.
The operations Friday were a first for the hospital. Split-liver transplants are rare and technically challenging.
The eight-hour operations were performed on 2-year-old Frank Sroka and 17-year-old Christian Liberto.
The hospital says both boys are doing well. The younger child had a disease that blocks the bile ducts. The teenager had a rare chronic liver disease.
A piece of a healthy liver can grow into a whole organ in about a month.
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