How the liver transplant is done

1. How the liver transplant is done Liver transplant is nothing but a surgical procedure to replace the diseased liver with a healthy liver which is donated by donors who have recently died. These donors will not have any injury on their organs. These donors are called cadaver donors. Yet another way of donating liver is to get a part of the liver from the living donor and replacing it on the patient whose liver is diseased. The liver will grow and become complete within two weeks for both the patient and the donors. These type of donors are called living donors. When you get in touch with Liver Transplant Surgeon in New Delhi, he will plan the right treatment for you.  Surgical procedure: A healthy liver performs more than 400 tasks daily such as making protein that are required for blood clotting; produces bile that helps with digestion.; stores fats, iron, vitamins, sugars and copper; and removes or changes the medications, toxins and bacteria in the blood. Liver Transplant Surgeon in New Delhi will remove a new one from the donor through surgical cuts in the upper part of the abdomen. It is kept in a

2. cooled saline solution (saline water) which preserves it for 8 hours. Then tests are performed to find out for whom it is suitable. Then the diseased liver is removed from the patient and the new liver is placed there and attached to blood vessels and the bile ducts. This operation will take 12 hours. Recipient requires large amount of blood through transfusion.  Reasons for liver transplant: Based on the ailment, transplants are done. In children, biliary atresia is the common reason for liver transplant and in adults it is the cirrhosis. Cirrhosis involves the scarring of liver and inhibits it from functioning which lead to most organ failure. Other than cirrhosis, thrombosis (hepatic vein blood clot), autoimmune hepatitis, medications or poisoning, haemochromatosis, Wilson’s disease which is the result of Metabolic disorders of iron, copper and problems with the liver’s binary tract are causes for the liver failure which leads to liver transplant. Now you have seen the surgical procedure and causes for liver transplant. The Liver Transplant Surgeon in New Delhi will not perform this procedure. If the patient has cancer or infected with osteolyelitis or tuberculosis and any other life threatening disease, hepatitis and persons having risky lifestyle habits like drug abuse, smoking and alcohol consumption.