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Mohamed El Kettani expresses his gratitude to Dr. Lee Sung-gyu, an endowed-chair professor of liver transplantation at Asan Medical Center, following his successful surgery at Asan Medical Center. Courtesy of Asan Medical Center
Mohamed El Kettani was running out of time.
Suffering from severe liver failure and an aggressive form of liver cancer that had invaded his portal vein, the 64-year-old Moroccan industrialist had been turned away by top medical centers in Europe. French doctors concluded that a deceased-donor transplant was no longer…