Woman saved by pig liver 20 years ago reunites with medical team

Friday, December 19, 2014 - 20:20 in Health & Medicine

Mavis McArdle reunited Friday with her old medical team to celebrate two decades of good health since the breakthrough procedure in 1994 at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital and is described by her doctors as the only person in Canada to have been kept alive using a pig's liver as life support.

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