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Sylvester Black, MD, PhD
Transplant Surgeon]

Sylvester Black, MD, PhD: I'm Doctor Sylvester Black. I'm a liver transplant surgeon at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. One of the questions that I get from patients during their clinic visit and their initial workup for transplantation is, "What can I expect after transplantation in terms of lifespan and quality of life, and all those things that are very pertinent to that discussion?"

Liver transplant has come a long way since the 1960s, where it was invented in 1963 by Tom Starzl, where if you were to have a liver transplant at that time, you would expect a 5% one-year survival. We've got better at surgery, anesthesia, 
medicine, and people can expect a 90% to 95% one-year survival with a liver transplant for acute liver failure or cirrhosis.

Patients can expect to have a duration of survival 20 to 40 years. There are people walking around 40 years after a liver transplant in good health. There are people that have given birth after a liver transplant to healthy babies and 
people that can go on and do amazing things. There are surgeons that are liver transplant surgeons that have actually had liver transplants. So you can expect a very high level of function. You can expect a very high level of energy and activity, and really, it is a modern miracle in medicine.

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