Liver Transplant Surgery

What is Liver Transplant Surgery

The liver is one of the most crucial organs in our body. It is responsible for the removal of dead red blood cells and is also involved in eliminating metabolic wastes products from the body. Bile juice released by the liver in the small intestines is essential to complete the process of food digestion and absorption. The liver might fail to function properly for various number of reasons and there are several diseases and microbes which might also affect the efficiency of the liver to work. A liver transplant is suggested for patients who have a diseased liver. In this procedure the diseased organ is removed from body and a healthy organ or part of the organ is transplanted in its place.

Before a liver transplant surgery is prescribed, your doctor needs to assess a lot of factors. Every candidate is not the right candidate for transplant. Organ transplant is a major procedure and involves a lot of complicated procedures. Before the surgery a doctor needs to examine the amount of damage that has already happened to the liver. The liver has a remarkable ability to sustain your life even if some portion of liver is not working correctly. Minor changes to daily life style and eating habits can avoid the hassle of a liver transplant. After your doctor decides to carry out the procedure on you, they will take your blood samples, tissue samples to match them with the compatible donor. It might take days or even months to find the correct donor, this is essential because your body might reject a foreign organ after the surgery. You need to take all the prescribed medicines to prepare yourself for the surgery.

Before the Procedure

How it is performed

How It Is Performed

After finding a successful donor your doctors will fix an appointment for your surgery. The surgery involves making an incision in right side of the abdomen. The incision should be large enough to gain access to the organ. The liver is one of the largest glands in our body and is richly supplied with blood vessels. It has a network of hepatic ducts which collect its secretions from various lobules and takes them to the desired organs. Surgeons need to carefully detach the ligaments and other supportive tissue which keep the organ in its place. Surgeons then temporarily block the supply from each of the important blood vessels and ducts. After this has been done, the diseased organ is removed and is replaced by the new one. Surgeons now attach each of the blood vessels with its counterpart and secure the organ in its place. After the blood supply has been resumed, they check the organ for any damage or leakage. The incision is closed with the help of sutures and dressing is applied.

Recovery

Our body has a remarkable ability to differentiate between self and non self. A foreign organ is always under a threat that the immune system of the recipient’s body can reject it at any point. To avoid this problem the recipient is treated with immuno suppressants. These medicines keep the immunity of the body low and do not allow easy rejection of the body. Some medicines have to be taken throughout the life. The recipient needs to be cautious about maintaining personal hygiene and should try to avoid getting in contact with people suffering from various illnesses. This is important as the recipient itself has low body immunity and is therefore more vulnerable to diseases.

Potential Risks

With a major surgery like liver transplant, one of the major risk is organ rejection. Your doctor can avoid this by finding a donor organ which matches more closely to your samples. Since liver transplant includes attaching of several vessels with the organ this can at times lead to thrombosis (condition in which blood vessels develop clots). This can be avoided by using sutures in the best way. Another important risk is poor response by the organ in the body of recipient. In conditions where the organ is not responding and is failing slowly doctors might have to do another transplant.

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