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| Bile duct and pancreas 1. Bile ducts: :2. Intrahepatic bile ducts :3. Left and right hepatic ducts :4. Common hepatic duct :5. Cystic duct :6. Common bile duct :7. Ampulla of Vater :8. Major duodenal papilla 9. Gallbladder 10-11. Right and left lobes of liver 12. Spleen 13. Esophagus 14. Stomach 15. Duodenum 16. Jejunum 17. Pancreas: :18. Accessory pancreatic duct :19. Pancreatic duct 20-21: Right and left kidneys Español: Vías biliares y pancreas Català: Vies biliars i pàncrees (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Shay Segura received some bad news in 1999 after
donating blood. She learned that she had primary biliary cirrhosis, or
PBC. The disease destroys the
bile ducts of the
liver. The disease is slow in developing but normally leads to a person's liver shutting down. Shay's only hope was a liver transplant, and she received one from her own son.
Shay first started the process of getting on the national transplant waiting list. However, her doctor told her that the wait would likely be too long, and she would die. It was recommended that she consider, and try to find, a suitable living donor. Her son, Bryan Cesario, stepped up to the plate to help his mom. He said, "I wanted to do it when I was 16 but you have to be 18." Shay didn't want him to do it, but he insisted. Both are now doing well and want people to know that living donation is an option for people needing liver transplants. In a living donor liver transplant, either the right or
left lobe of the donor's liver is removed from the donor and then transplanted into the recipient. Then, the liver will regenerate itself within the donor in about two months.
For more information about organ and tissue donation and how you can register as a donor in the state where you live, please visit the
Tennessee Organ Donation Foundation's website by
clicking here.
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