Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with a healthy liver allograft . The most commonly used technique is orthotopic transplantation, in which the native liver is removed and replaced by the donor organ in the same anatomic location as the original liver. Liver transplantation nowadays is a well accepted treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure. Typically three surgeons and one anesthesiologist are involved, with up to four supporting nurses. The surgical procedure is very demanding and ranges from 4 to 18 hours depending on outcome. Numerous anastomoses and sutures, and many disconnections and reconnections of abdominal and hepatic tissue, must be made for the transplant to succeed, requiring an eligible recipient and a well-calibrated live or cadaveric donor match. By any standard, hepatic transplantation is a major surgical procedure with an appreciable degree of risk.
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where do you enter the body ,for a liver operation, useing Key hole procedure
I was prescribed Lortab 5mg/500 Tylenol 4 times daily for chronic pain from a car accident. I have been taking this dose for about 3 months now. The highest does I have taken during any given 24 hours might have been 3200mg when the pain is...
hi doctor, i have itching around my belly and right and left part of weist at evening and night. i can not see any raches when i itching then that part swell.
My baby boy ( born on 16th Nov 10) was diagnosed with biliary atresia when he was close to 2 month 20 days old. Kasai surgery was done on 14th Feb 11 just before he turned 3 months old. After the surgery he started passing yellow stool unlike clay...
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My father in law has a ascites problem and doctors have identified cirrhosis as the problem. Right now, only water is being taken out of stomach every 4 to 5 days and it is about 2 to 3 litre.
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I get severe pain on right side below rib cage and pain also goes to middle of my back. Only thing that helps relief this is to throw up. I know your liver is on that side. Could I have a liver problem?
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my husband has an excrutiating headache and the paracetamol hasn't worked, he's very distressed, (tired and cold), I don't know what to do for him; it's nearly 9pm and I don't drive.
Yes please. I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepititus. It is killing my liver. My doctor who diagnosed me through a biopsy told me I was not a canadite for a transplant. To go home and wait to die. What I want to know...
I accidently gav my son 2 paracetamol instead of 1, what should I do? He is 9 and 54kg,
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now my son is 14 years old. when we was infant around 6-7 months old he had some problem. that is i saw a very small (1/4 cm) flesh (it looks like tiny piece of liver ) comes out from his bum hole. it came at two three times a day,and it goes back inside without even i know. but my son never crys enen it comes.He used to play abd crawl even it...
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I had a liver transplant about a year ago. I still feel some internal pain some times. My question is how long will it take for healing I have also been experiencing some burnings in my upper and lower limbs. Is this normal? Could it be the resultof the medications that I am on? I am currently taking a combination of Prograph and Myfortic. Thank...
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hi, my mom got liver transplant 3 months already and she needs to test her blood once a few weeks and it seems that her SGOT SGPT have been increasing, now are about 200 something both of them. What could be reasons and how to reduce them? Doctor told that other value after tested are fine, so it seems that he only waits and sees results, but i...
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A O A iam from pakistan no transplant in ( liver ) pak. its possible in india and plz. tell me about of its cost .
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My father had Liver transplant last month, after transplant, his liver is functioning fine. But now doctors are saying his kidney is not working fine and needs to undergo kidney transplant. Diebaties is the root cause of Liver & kidney malfunction. Even his heart is effected. My query is: Is there any solution apart from Kidney Transplant? What...
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My friend is suffering from liver problem n other doctor tht he live only fr 2 yrs its true is there any changes of saving him His age is 31 n name sid from last 4 yrs he is suffering from liver problem
My 55 yo son has end-stage liver failure . He recently completed the medication regimen to eradicate his Hep-C, and last couple of lab results show no discernible trace of Hep C . He has an appointment at UAB on Tuesday for his three-day workup prior to being placed on the liver transplant list. He has continued to decline, suffers almost daily...
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Sir, My dad is having Chronic Liver Disease past 8 months. He is non-alcoholic. He is having jaundice (Bilirubin=4.5), Ascites , Spleenomegaly. He is taking the following tablets: Ursocol 150 (3times a day), Silbostin, Spiactone-T past 8 months. His condition has not improved. Doctor has said that Liver Transplantation is the only cure. Are...
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hello doctor . my mom got 95 ESR & 79 Diff PMN . please kindly recommend what is her disease. Last 8 year she got a cancer in her breast and she got rid off it already and she got cancer again in her liver and she cut one of her liver out . Now I have no idea It s relate with cancer or only normal infections . please kindly recommend.
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Hello doc , one of my brothers-in-law is down with cirrhosis of liver . What is it? What the causes? How to prevent it? How is the prognosis?
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