One of the recipients of what's believed to be North America's first paired living liver donation is calling the stranger who saved his life "an angel." In turn, Khan's wife, Hina, donated more than half of her liver to another stranger. The transplant program says paired liver exchanges have been performed in South Korea and Hong Kong, but there are no published reports of them being done in Europe or North America. Hina Khan, Muhammad Khan's wife, donated more than half of her liver to a stranger to complete the paired living donation. Similar paired exchanges involving kidneys have been performed for 15 years, but liver exchanges are far more rare and riskier.

Source: CBC News April 16, 2019 20:15 UTC