As part of new program, two St. Luke’s patients receive liver transplants

A new liver transplant program at St. Luke’s Hospital is reporting that it has performed its first two procedures.

The first patient, a 54-year-old Parkville man diagnosed with hepatitis C, cirrhosis and liver cancer, received his liver transplant Nov. 19. The patient, Charles Jones, was on the waiting list for a donor liver for 110 days, the hospital said. He was in surgery for about four and a half hours and discharged from the hospital after six days.

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