As the pandemic leads many hospitals to postpone transplant operations, rapid coronavirus testing allowed doctors at a Colorado hospital to give Zach Branson the liver he needed.
Both Branson, 33, and his uncle, Troy, 45, tested negative for the virus Monday morning, giving doctors the green light. Within hours, transplant surgeons had removed a portion of Troy’s healthy liver and implanted it in his nephew, who was born with a rare disease that caused bile to back up in his body, slowly devastating his liver.
In the days afterward, Branson made arrangements for home hospice care — unsure whether he would need it. The coronavirus pandemic has led hospitals across the United States to cancel or postpone most elective surgeries, seriously disrupting the lives of many awaiting new organs, transplant experts said.
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