Most organ donations for organ transplants come from deceased donors. But the liver is special. The liver is the only organ that can regenerate itself and grow back from a small piece to its full size. This means that a living donor can volunteer to donate a part of their healthy liver to someone else in need. Miraculously, when you become a living liver donor, your healthy liver can become two healthy livers. A living donor liver transplant is two procedures that happen simultaneously: one for the liver donor and one for the transplant recipient. If you donate, a surgeon will remove a portion of your liver — typically one lobe, or less for a child — and transplant it in the recipient right away. After a successful living liver donation and transplant, both pieces of the divided liver will grow back to full size within a few months. If you and your liver are in good health, you could become a living liver donor and save a life. You can’t always donate your liver to a particular person you know — it depends on if your blood type and liver mass is compatible with theirs. But when you donate a part of your liver to someone in need, you reduce the greater need. This makes it more likely that another donor liver could save the person you know