San Diego
Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation did its third liver transplant overnight Tuesday, on a 49-year-old San Diego man.
The six-hour surgery on the man, who declined to be identified, began about 6 p.m. Tuesday, a Scripps spokeswoman said. He needed a new liver because of a condition called primary sclerosing cholangitis, a hardening and inflammation of the bile ducts.
Meanwhile, a Whittier woman who underwent a liver transplant at Scripps last Friday was upgraded earlier this week to serious but stable condition.
Those two transplants followed the July death of the first person to undergo the operation in Scripps’ new program.
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