About Liver Transplant Treatment, Cost, Hospitals

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Liver Transplant Surgery
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What is Liver Transplant Surgery

• The liver is one of the most crucial organs in
  our body. It is responsible for the removal of
  dead red blood cells and is also involved in
  eliminating metabolic wastes products from the
  body. Bile juice released by the liver in the
  small intestines is essential to complete the
  process of food digestion and absorption. The
  liver might fail to function properly for various
  number of reasons and there are several diseases
  and microbes which might also affect the
  efficiency of the liver to work. A liver
  transplant is suggested for patients who have a
  diseased liver. In this procedure the diseased
  organ is removed from body and a healthy organ or
  part of the organ is transplanted in its place.

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Before the Procedure

• Before a liver transplant surgery is prescribed,
  your doctor needs to assess a lot of factors.
  Every candidate is not the right candidate for
  transplant. Organ transplant is a major procedure
  and involves a lot of complicated procedures.
  Before the surgery a doctor needs to examine the
  amount of damage that has already happened to the
  liver. The liver has a remarkable ability to
  sustain your life even if some portion of liver
  is not working correctly. Minor changes to daily
  life style and eating habits can avoid the hassle
  of a liver transplant. After your doctor decides
  to carry out the procedure on you, they will take
  your blood samples, tissue samples to match them
  with the compatible donor. It might take days or
  even months to find the correct donor, this is
  essential because your body might reject a
  foreign organ after the surgery. You need to take
  all the prescribed medicines to prepare yourself
  for the surgery.

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How it is performed
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How It Is Performed
After finding a successful donor your doctors
will fix an appointment for your surgery. The
surgery involves making an incision in right side
of the abdomen. The incision should be large
enough to gain access to the organ. The liver is
one of the largest glands in our body and is
richly supplied with blood vessels. It has a
network of hepatic ducts which collect its
secretions from various lobules and takes them to
the desired organs. Surgeons need to carefully
detach the ligaments and other supportive tissue
which keep the organ in its place. Surgeons then
temporarily block the supply from each of the
important blood vessels and ducts. After this has
been done, the diseased organ is removed and is
replaced by the new one. Surgeons now attach each
of the blood vessels with its counterpart and
secure the organ in its place. After the blood
supply has been resumed, they check the organ for
any damage or leakage. The incision is closed
with the help of sutures and dressing is applied.
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Recovery

• Our body has a remarkable ability to
  differentiate between self and non self. A
  foreign organ is always under a threat that the
  immune system of the recipients body can reject
  it at any point. To avoid this problem the
  recipient is treated with immuno suppressants.
  These medicines keep the immunity of the body low
  and do not allow easy rejection of the body. Some
  medicines have to be taken throughout the life.
  The recipient needs to be cautious about
  maintaining personal hygiene and should try to
  avoid getting in contact with people suffering
  from various illnesses. This is important as the
  recipient itself has low body immunity and is
  therefore more vulnerable to diseases.

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Potential Risks
With a major surgery like liver transplant, one
of the major risk is organ rejection. Your doctor
can avoid this by finding a donor organ which
matches more closely to your samples. Since liver
transplant includes attaching of several vessels
with the organ this can at times lead to
thrombosis (condition in which blood vessels
develop clots). This can be avoided by using
sutures in the best way. Another important risk
is poor response by the organ in the body of
recipient. In conditions where the organ is not
responding and is failing slowly doctors might
have to do another transplant.
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