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What drugs are taken after a liver transplantation?
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Patients with transplanted livers have to stay on immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives to prevent organ rejection.
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What tissue in addition to the liver is taken from the donor for an orthotopic transplantation?
When an orthotopic transplantation is performed, a segment of the inferior vena cava attached to the liver is taken from the donor as well.
How does the patient prepare for a liver transplantation?
Drugs are administered that will decrease organ rejection after surgery.
What new drugs are now used after liver transplantation?
There has been a recent, welcome development in renal sparing drugs, such as mycophenolate mofetil
What types of liver transplantation are there?
There are three types of liver transplantation methods. They include
How many methods of liver transplantation are there?
There are three types of liver transplantation methods.
What is an orthotopic liver transplantation?
Orthotopic transplantation is the replacement of a whole diseased liver with a healthy donor liver.
What is a reduced-size liver transplantation?
Reduced-size liver transplantation is the replacement of a whole diseased liver with a portion of a healthy donor liver.
What is an orthotropic liver transplantation?
Heterotopic transplantation is transplantation of a tissue to a place it is not normally found. In regards to cardiac transplantation, heterotopic cardiac transplant is the transplant of a donor heart without removing the native heart. This is a rare kind of cardiac transplantation.
How soon following a liver transplantation can the patient reduce the dosage of immunosuppressant drugs?
Although many can reduce the dosage of immunosuppressant drugs after the initial few months, virtually none can discontinue drugs altogether.
What is the downside of liver transplantation?
There is a high risk of tumor recurrence and metastases after transplantation.
Who are not good candidates for liver transplantation?
patients who are acutely ill and unstable; who have uncontrolled or untreatable pulmonary infection; significant dysfunction of other organs, particularly the liver, kidney, or central nervous system
Orthotopic liver transplantation?
Replacement of a whole diseased liver by a healthy donor liver.
