As many as necessary, depending on patient. On an elderly patient, or a patient with significant other co-morbidities (other health problems) which would not be 'cured' by a liver transplant, the surgery could be considered more risky (i.e higher risk of death). If the surgery was considered very high risk (e.g elderly patient with a significant heart problem), some hospitals may not consider doing the re-transplant operation. However, if the patient is still expected to have a good quality of life after (however many) re-transplants, re-transplanting will still be considered, and is usually performed. (Typically, the patient will give up having transplants before the hospital refuses to perform them.) The main problem with re-transplanting is build up of scar tissue around the site - this leads to high levels of blood loss during surgery, which makes each successive re-transplant higher risk than the previous. But it is not impossible to live a normal life after a few liver re-transplants :)
no, only once
cost of a liver transplant in china
Patients may be given a liver transplant in the event of liver failure as a complication of WD.
kem hospital is very affordable for liver transplant
A liver transplant may become necessary if complications occur
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You can indeed.
The first human liver transplant was performed in 1963, and since then, thousands of liver transplants are done every year.
Alcohol damages the liver ~ Therefore a transplant is needed if this hapens.
Included among the many causes of liver failure that bring patients to transplant surgery are:
The gallbladder is not essential - you can live without it quite easily (like your appendix). So it is never transplanted since it is not necessary. And when having a liver transplant, the gallbladder (both the original and the transplanted) are removed. Nobody with a liver transplant has a gall-bladder.
Complications following a liver transplant.
Liver transplantation is a surgery that removes a diseased liver and replace it with a healthy donor liver.