What is liver transplantation?
Your liver helps fight infections and cleans your blood. It also helps digest food and stores a form of sugar your body uses for energy. The liver is the largest organ in your body.
-yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, a condition called jaundice
-feeling tired or weak
-losing your appetite
-feeling sick to your stomach
-losing weight
-losing muscle
-itching
-bruising or bleeding easily
-bleeding in the stomach
-throwing up blood
-passing black stools
-having a swollen abdomen
-becoming forgetful or confused
Each transplant center has rules about who can have a liver transplant. You may not be able to have a transplant if you have
- cancer outside the liver
- serious heart or lung disease
- an alcohol or drug abuse problem
- a severe infection
- AIDS
- trouble following your doctor’s instructions
- no support system
Most livers come from people who have just died. This type of donor is called a deceased donor. Sometimes a healthy living person will donate part of his or her liver to a patient, usually a family member. This type of donor is called a living donor. Both types of transplants usually have good results.
All donated livers and living donors are tested before transplant surgery. The testing makes sure the donor liver works as it should, matches your blood type, and is the right size, so it has the best chance of working in your body. Adults usually receive the entire liver from a deceased donor. Sometimes only a portion of a whole liver from a deceased donor is used to fit a smaller person. In some cases, a liver from a deceased donor is split into two parts. The smaller part may go to a child, and the larger part may go to an adult....
All donated livers and living donors,transplants usually have good results.,Some signs and symptoms of liver problems are,
No comments:
Post a Comment