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A liver transplant is an operation that replaces a patient's diseased liver with a whole or partial healthy liver from another person.
Who Needs a Liver transplant?
Liver transplantation surgically replaces a failing or diseased liver with one that is normal and healthy. At this time, transplantation is the only cure for liver insufficiency or liver failure because no device or machine reliably performs all of the functions of the liver. People who require liver transplants typically have one of the following conditions.
>Acute Liver FailureAcute liver failure, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, occurs when a previously healthy liver suffers massive injury resulting in clinical signs and symptoms of liver insufficiency. Any number of things can lead to acute liver failure but the most common causes are overdose, viral infections (known or yet unknown virus), ingestion of a toxin such as poisonous mushrooms...
>Chronic liver failure
The liver has a remarkable ability to repair itself in response to injury. Nevertheless, repeated injury and repair, typically over many years and even decades, scars the liver permanently. The end stage of scarring is termed cirrhosis and corresponds to the point where the liver can no longer repair itself. Once a person has cirrhosis, he or she may begin to show signs of inadequate liver function. This is termed "decompensated liver disease." Although medications can decrease the symptoms caused by the liver failure, liver transplantation represents the only permanent cure.
Signs and Symptoms of Decompensated Liver Disease:
Gastrointestinal bleeding
Fluid retention
Encephalopathy: Failure of the liver to clear ammonia and other toxins from the blood allows these substances to accumulate. These toxins result in dysfunction that ranges from disturbed sleep-wake cycle patterns to mild confusion to coma.
Jaundice: In liver failure, bilirubin is not cleared from the body and bilirubin levels increase in the blood. The skin and all tissues of the body will then assume a yellow color.
Causes of Chronic Liver Injury :
Viral Hepatitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Alcoholic Liver Disease
Metabolic Liver Disease
Autoimmune Liver Disease
Genetic Liver Disease
Vascular Liver Disease
Who Needs a Liver transplant?
Liver transplantation surgically replaces a failing or diseased liver with one that is normal and healthy. At this time, transplantation is the only cure for liver insufficiency or liver failure because no device or machine reliably performs all of the functions of the liver. People who require liver transplants typically have one of the following conditions.
>Acute Liver FailureAcute liver failure, also known as fulminant hepatic failure, occurs when a previously healthy liver suffers massive injury resulting in clinical signs and symptoms of liver insufficiency. Any number of things can lead to acute liver failure but the most common causes are overdose, viral infections (known or yet unknown virus), ingestion of a toxin such as poisonous mushrooms...
>Chronic liver failure
The liver has a remarkable ability to repair itself in response to injury. Nevertheless, repeated injury and repair, typically over many years and even decades, scars the liver permanently. The end stage of scarring is termed cirrhosis and corresponds to the point where the liver can no longer repair itself. Once a person has cirrhosis, he or she may begin to show signs of inadequate liver function. This is termed "decompensated liver disease." Although medications can decrease the symptoms caused by the liver failure, liver transplantation represents the only permanent cure.
Signs and Symptoms of Decompensated Liver Disease:
Gastrointestinal bleeding
Fluid retention
Encephalopathy: Failure of the liver to clear ammonia and other toxins from the blood allows these substances to accumulate. These toxins result in dysfunction that ranges from disturbed sleep-wake cycle patterns to mild confusion to coma.
Jaundice: In liver failure, bilirubin is not cleared from the body and bilirubin levels increase in the blood. The skin and all tissues of the body will then assume a yellow color.
Causes of Chronic Liver Injury :
Viral Hepatitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Alcoholic Liver Disease
Metabolic Liver Disease
Autoimmune Liver Disease
Genetic Liver Disease
Vascular Liver Disease