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Brothers sue UPMC over live-donor liver transplant

The Columbian
Published: February 5, 2010, 12:00am

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A California man and his liver donor brother have sued the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center saying both have complications from their surgeries and weren’t fully informed of the risks of live-donor transplants.

Forty-five-year-old Peter Cullen, of Northridge, Calif., had the transplant in 2007 using part of the liver from his brother, 43-year-old Timothy Cullen, of Port Orchard, Wash.

In separate suits filed Wednesday, the men claim UPMC and its former chief of transplantation made the live-donor option seem safer than it actually was. Both suits cite 2008 stories by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, which showed that 66 percent of the 121 live-donor liver transplants at UPMC from 2003 to 2006 resulted in significant complications.

A UPMC spokesman declined comment.

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Information from: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, http://pghtrib.com

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