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Liver Transplantation

Also called: Hepatic transplantation
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Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It helps your body digest food, store energy, and remove poisons. You cannot live without a liver that works. If your liver fails, your doctor may put you on a waiting list for a liver transplant. Doctors do liver transplants when other treatment cannot keep a damaged liver working.

During a liver transplantation, the surgeon removes the diseased liver and replaces it with a healthy one. Most transplant livers come from a donor who has died. Sometimes there is a living donor. This is when a healthy person donates part of his or her liver for a specific patient.

The most common reason for a transplant in adults is cirrhosis. This is scarring of the liver, caused by injury or long-term disease. The most common reason in children is biliary atresia, a disease of the bile ducts.

If you have a transplant, you must take drugs the rest of your life to help keep your body from rejecting the new liver.

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  • Getting a New Liver: Facts about Liver Transplants (American Society of Transplantation) - PDF
  • Liver Transplant From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

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  • Liver Transplant: Complications/Medications (Department of Veterans Affairs)
  • Liver Transplant: Nutrition (Department of Veterans Affairs)

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  • Liver (Health Resources and Services Administration)
  • Questions and Answers for Transplant Candidates about Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) (United Network for Organ Sharing) - PDF

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  • Living Donor Liver Transplantation (American Society of Transplantation) - PDF

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  • Liver transplant - series (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

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  • The SRTR/OPTN Annual Data Report (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients)

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  • ClinicalTrials.gov: Liver Transplantation From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)

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  • Article: Tacrolimus dosing in liver transplant recipients using phenotypic personalized medicine: A...
  • Article: Tremors and Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Recipients: Post-hoc...
  • Article: Resection and partial liver transplantation from deceased donors with delayed total...
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  • American Liver Foundation
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  • Liver Transplant (for parents) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish

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  • Liver transplant (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

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  • Cirrhosis
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The primary NIH organization for research on Liver Transplantation is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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