How ‘living liver’ donations could fill a gender gap in transplantation

Years of research has shown that women are less likely to receive a liver transplant and more likely to die on the waiting list than men. One 2018 study of 90,720 registrants in a transplant network database found that women were 20 per cent less likely to receive a transplant, with women also more likely to die four years after getting on the list.

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9 comments

  1. Perhaps more women could start dying sooner and making their precious parts available for donation. Perhaps the State could mandate this process so that women are ‘expired’ at the average age that men do so their organs could be harvested. If we’re ever to achieve the coveted ‘equality’ we so desire this is something we should look look at. Maybe it’ll be in the throne speech?

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