Q: what can cause a person to need a liver transplant?

Many causes: Liver transplant is meant for replacing the liver which is damaged from one of many probable causes; it could be from excessive alcohol intake or disease processes on which you may not have control.

Q: what complications are there with liver transplantation?

Varies: Most patients thrive and do well after liver transplant. However, surgical complications, recurrence of the disease in the new liver (depends on reason for transplant), rejection of the liver- which generally can be treated easily by medications, anti rejection medication related side effects and infections etc. Although these complications occur majority of patients have a better quality of life.

Q: are there any age specification for liver transplantation?

Age limits: Each transplant center determines this based on medical criteria.

Q: what is the definition or description of: liver transplant?

Liver Transplant: A liver transplant is a surgical procedure that has both a donor and a recipient. The donor has part (if living) or the entire liver removed, and this is transplanted to the recipient. Liver transplantation is a life saving procedure and is performed when the recipient's liver is failing, or has developed a localized cancer that cannot be removed with partial liver resection..

Q: what happens if a person drinks after a liver transplant is approved?

May be off the list: This is a very serious situation and it can jeopardize your candidacy for receiving a transplant. Alcoholism is a serious disease just like heart disease or stroke. So, just as you would not transplant a patient actively having a heart attack, patients who are drinking can be removed from the transplant list. Be honest with yourself and with your physicians. Alcoholism can be treated.

Question 1

how does  liver transplantation work?

Accepted Answer

Long answer!: And far too lengthy for this space.  Check out this website

http://digestive.Niddk.Nih.Gov/ddiseases/pubs/livertransplant_ez/#1

for all the details.

Question 2

when is it too late for a liver transplant?

Accepted Answer

When: There is development of a large cancer or multisystem failure.

Question 3

what is the prognosis after a liver transplant?

Accepted Answer

null: It depends on the cause of the need for liver transplant and the transplant center, but generally, 90-95% of patients are alive at 1 year, 75-85% at 2 years and 65-75% are alive at 5 years. This is much better than the life expectancy without a liver transplant.

Question 4

how would you get an emergency liver transplant?

Accepted Answer

Be the sickest .: Emergent livers are allocated to those with an expected life span of <7 d such as those with acute liver toxicity. Urgent donation is available for those very ill patients on life support. A patial liver from a live donor can be used in an urgent or emergent situation though this is controversial.

Question 5

i have ginocomastia due to liver transplant help.

Accepted Answer

Talk with doctors...: See transplant doctor to clarify if gynecomastia is really liver-transplant related. If so, ask her/him if something can be done. For someone after liver transplant, i would be more careful of any drug use. But as a urologist, I do know low-dose of radiation to the breasts helps decrease their size in patients under hormonal rx for prostate cancer. So, this may be a worthwhile consideration...

Question 6

what can cause  a person to need a liver transplant?

Accepted Answer

Many causes: Liver transplant is meant for replacing the liver which is damaged from one of many probable causes; it could be from excessive alcohol intake or disease processes on which you may not have control.

Question 7

what complications are there with liver transplantation?

Accepted Answer

Varies: Most patients thrive and do well after liver transplant. However, surgical complications, recurrence of the disease in the new liver (depends on reason for transplant), rejection of the liver- which generally can be treated easily by medications, anti rejection medication related side effects and infections etc. Although these complications occur majority of patients have a better quality of life.

Question 8

are there any age specification for liver transplantation?

Accepted Answer

Age limits: Each transplant center determines this based on medical criteria.

Question 9

what is the definition or description of: liver transplant?

Accepted Answer

Liver Transplant: A liver transplant is a surgical procedure that has both a donor and a recipient. The donor has part (if living) or the entire liver removed, and this is transplanted to the recipient. 

Liver transplantation is a life saving procedure and is performed when the recipient's liver is failing, or has developed a localized cancer that cannot be removed with partial liver resection..

Question 10

what happens if a person drinks after a liver transplant is approved?

Accepted Answer

May be off the list: This is a very serious situation and it can jeopardize your candidacy for receiving a transplant.  Alcoholism is a serious disease just like heart disease or stroke.  So, just as you would not transplant a patient actively having a heart attack, patients who are drinking can be removed from the transplant list.  Be honest with yourself and with your physicians.  Alcoholism can be treated.

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