CLEVELAND — Legendary Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar is expected to be released from a Cleveland hospital today, a week after undergoing a liver transplant.
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Kosar underwent the procedure on Nov. 17 at University Hospitals.
“I’m so grateful to be heading home just one week after my liver transplant — and just in time for Monday Night Football and my birthday tomorrow," Kosar wrote on social media.
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He received the liver from 21-year-old Bryce Dunlap, of North Olmsted, WOIO, a CBS affiliate in Cleveland, reported.
Dunlap died of complications from an anoxic brain injury.
As WOIO reported. Kosar publicly thanked the 21-year-old’s family online and called the transplant a “great gift.”
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