"Daughter Gives Lifesaving Gift To Dad" - Sander Florman, MD
Two years ago, Steven Frey, of Long Island, gathered his three children to tell them that his liver was failing and he would need a transplant. After tests showed his daughter Marielle was a match, the two underwent surgery so she could donate part of her liver to him. Sander Florman, MD, director of the Recanti and Miller Transplant Institute at Mount Sinai, and team at The Mount Sinai Hospital performed the complicated hour’s long surgery. “As soon as we start cutting the liver in half, the liver starts to regenerate, and within six weeks 90 percent of it grows back,” said Dr. Florman. It has been almost a year since the transplant and both Marielle and Steven are doing great.
- Sander Florman, MD, Director, Recanti and Miller Transplant Institute, Professor, Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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