Lone liver program in New Mexico shut down due to a lack of available organs; regional sharing blamed.(Brief Article)

Transplant News | July 29, 2000 | Copyright

University Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico has shut down its liver transplant program because of a lack of donated livers available for transplantation. It was the state's only liver transplant program.

"It is with a great deal of pain that I've had to come to this point," said Donald Fry, MD, chairman of the department of surgery at the University of New Mexico's School of Medicine, who started the program in 1994.

University Hospital performed 19 liver transplants in 1998 which Fry said was enough to keep the program afloat financially. However, in ...

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