Liver transplant is a complex surgical procedure, performed when all other treatments fail to manage liver disease. Extensive physical and mental evaluations are performed before a patient can be considered as a candidate for transplant.
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- New Zealand Liver Transplant Recipients Website Provides information, personal experiences and contact people for all recipients, care givers and interested people. Donors, fact sheets and The Liver are three sections.
- European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR) summarizes the results of about 40,000 liver transplantations in 35,000 patients from 120 centers of 20 countries.
- Liver Transplant Support Online Information, chats, and message boards for pre- and post-transplant patients. Includes news, medications and research, concerns, jokes, poems, and journals.
- Liver Transplant eMedicine article discusses types of transplant surgeries, how patient need is determined, and types of donors. Includes exams and tests, self-care at home, medications, and when to seek medical care.
- Liver Transplantation Describes the transplant process, and provides a link to the most current list of free publications available from the National Institutes of Health.
- Liver Transplant Mayo Clinic article discusses the process from determining need through post-transplant treatment. Includes waiting for a donor organ and preparing for the surgery.