RECOVERED COVID PATIENT, RECEIVES SUCCESSFUL LIVER TRANSPLANT

The transplant center team at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) in Valhalla, the flagship of WMCHealth, successfully transplanted a liver in a patient who had recently recovered from Covid-19, demonstrating that appropriate, prospective organ recipients who have recovered from the viral infection can be safely considered for organ transplantation. Abhay Dhand, M.D., director of transplant infectious…