Name: Amazing Medical Stories: Lives In The Balance
Uploaded: 2002-12-31T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 49 min 45 s
Description: Jeff Cross, 28, is living on borrowed time because of a rare genetic illness that prevents the liver from breaking down a crucial protein.

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Jeff Cross, 28, is living on borrowed time because of a rare genetic illness that prevents the liver from breaking down a crucial protein.

Amazing Medical Stories

Lives In The Balance

Amazing Medical Stories follows the lives of people with rare and surprising medical afflictions and documents the remarkable medical treatments that are used to cure them.

A man survives a steel bar through his skull, another man finds out medical tools were left inside his body after an operation, and the first ever larynx transplant surgery is done in this episode of Amazing Medical Stories.

Against All Odds

A birthmark-turned-tumor costs Ricardo his nose, but doctors plan to install a prosthetic replacement; an electrocution survivor gains a bionic arm.

Defying The Odds

Woman suffering chronic thromboembolic disease; twin offers to donate skin grafts for her 6-year-old sister's burn wounds.

Second Chances

Skin grafts and an unconventional body-pouch save the life of a firefighter; regaining the use of one's legs.

The Cutting Edge

Multiple surgeries for gunshot wounds; autoimmune disease; birth defects challenge development of a young man's legs.

Rebuilding Lives

A new procedure helps a man with Tourette's syndrome.

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Season 3, 6 Episodes

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Season 3, 6 Episodes

Season 3 (6 Episodes)

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