Liver Transplantation
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Your liver helps fight infections and cleans your blood. It also helps digest food and stores energy for when you need it. 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 treatments 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 a healthy person donates part of his or her liver for a specific patient. In this case the donor is called a living donor. The most common reason for transplantation in adults is cirrhosis. This is a disease in which healthy liver cells are killed and replaced with scar tissue. The most common reason in children is biliary atresia, a disease of the bile ducts.
People who have transplants must take drugs for the rest of their lives to keep their bodies from rejecting their new livers.
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Liver Transplant/Living Donor Liver Transplant
umassmemorial.org — “Living Liver Donor, liver transplant, surgery” View full resource at umassmemorial.org
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Hepatitis B And Liver Transplant
medicalnewstoday.com — “Treatment to reduce recurrence of hepatitis B appears to improve liver transplant outcomes for some patients, according to a Mayo Clinic study presented at the American Transplant Congress in San” View full resource at medicalnewstoday.com
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Hepatitis B And Liver Transplant http://mnt.to/3CcB #transplants
Liver Transplantation on #MDlinx
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Dual catheter placement technique for treatment of biliary anastomotic strictures after liver transplantation: ... http://bit.ly/bairsL #GI
Endocrinology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Hypomagnesemia and the risk of new-onset diabetes after liver transplantation” View full resource at mdlinx.com
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Hypomagnesemia and the risk of new-onset diabetes after liver transplantation: Liver Transplantation http://bit.ly/bnrdHl #diabetes
Endocrinology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Hypomagnesemia and the risk of new-onset diabetes after liver transplantation” View full resource at mdlinx.com
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Hypomagnesemia and the risk of new-onset diabetes after liver transplantation: Liver Transplantation http://bit.ly/bkzwPj #endo
Gastroenterology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Changing picture of central nervous system complications in liver transplant recipients” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on August 5, 2011 at 7:11 am By:
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Changing picture of central nervous system complications in liver transplant recipients: Liver Transplantation http://bit.ly/nDXX5U #GI
Gastroenterology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Complications after ERCP in liver transplant recipients” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on June 28, 2011 at 8:01 pm By:
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Complications after ERCP in liver transplant recipients: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://bit.ly/iAZnFY #GI
Gastroenterology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Risk of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis in Liver Transplantation Patients” View full resource at mdlinx.com
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Risk of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis in Liver Transplantation Patients: American Journal of Roentgenology http://t.co/jkA9Srt #GI
Liver Transplant | Facebook
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Oncology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Evaluation of Absolute Serum -Fetoprotein Levels in Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Cancer” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on January 19, 2011 at 11:54 am By:
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Evaluation of Absolute Serum -Fetoprotein Levels in Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Cancer: Archiv... http://bit.ly/gu0PrZ #oncology
Endocrinology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Glycemic Control by a Glucose Management Service and Infection Rates Following Liver Transplantation” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on March 14, 2011 at 2:18 pm By:
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Glycemic Control by a Glucose Management Service and Infection Rates Following Liver Transplantation: Endo... http://bit.ly/ebG2WM #endo
Gastroenterology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Without Venovenous Bypass Using the Conventional and Piggyback Techniques” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on June 18, 2011 at 2:41 pm By:
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Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Without Venovenous Bypass Using the Conventional and Piggyback Techniques: ... http://bit.ly/j551oB #GI
Gastroenterology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “New Prognostic Model for Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on June 30, 2011 at 9:53 pm By:
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New Prognostic Model for Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipients: Transplantation Proceedings http://bit.ly/kC46VI #GI
Endocrinology Article | Liver Transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Relationship Between Hepatitis C Virus Recurrence and De Novo Diabetes After Liver Transplantation: The Hungarian Experience” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on June 15, 2011 at 1:00 am By:
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Relationship Between Hepatitis C Virus Recurrence and De Novo Diabetes After Liver Transplantation: The Hu... http://bit.ly/jfmaK0 #endo
Pediatrics Article | Liver transplantation
mdlinx.com — “Renal function in the long term after pediatric liver transplantation: is there a need for protocol kidney biopsies” View full resource at mdlinx.com
Most Recently Shared on November 5, 2010 at 4:20 am By:
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Renal function in the long term after pediatric liver transplantation: is there a need for protocol kidney... http://bit.ly/9m3ySR #peds
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