Last summer, he said liver specialists had given him 18 months to live.

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Its solution is a single national waiting list that would simply give the highest priority for liver transplants to the sickest patients, wherever they live.

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The liver cells get stabilized in a day or so then can live for up to six weeks.

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The 62-year-old patient, Ian Christie, had cirrhosis of the liver and doctors told him last year that he had only 12 to 18 months to live.

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He developed liver cirrhosis and was told last year that without a transplant he might have about 18 months to live.

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