Can a son be a father's liver transplant donor

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There is a relative in my family who needs liver transplantation because of his poor liver, but no suitable donor has been found yet. I've heard others say that blood can also be used as a donor. So today I'd like to introduce to you whether my son can be used as a father's liver transplantation donor.

Can a son be a father's liver transplant donor

First, the patients who had a history of hepatitis B were actually suffering from primary liver cancer and liver cirrhosis. When they came to the hospital recently, they had severe jaundice, ascites and hypoproteinemia, and the two tumors were close to the major hepatic vessels, so they completely lost the opportunity of surgical treatment. Liver transplantation became a glimmer of hope for the patients. In view of the critical condition and the shortage of liver donors, after learning that the patients' immediate relatives have the same blood type are willing to donate part of the liver.

Second: "living related donor liver transplantation" can solve the problem of insufficient donors in current liver transplantation to a great extent, which has been highly praised by medical circles at home and abroad in recent years. However, it is the most difficult and risky one among all liver transplantation operations. Because while ensuring the survival of the receptor, it must also ensure the safety of the donor.

Third, the whole operation of living donor liver transplantation lasted 17 hours, which was divided into two operations: father's "living donor liver acquisition" and son's "resection of diseased liver and transplantation of donor liver". In order to ensure enough donor liver, the transplantation team chose the highly risky "right lobe liver resection" scheme. 825 grams of liver tissue were cut from his father's liver, together with a set of right hepatic vein, portal vein, right hepatic artery and bile duct, which were carefully separated. Finally, the vein, artery and bile duct system after the diseased liver were successfully removed for "docking". At the end of the operation, there was bile outflow from the liver graft.

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In fact, in terms of our current hospital operation ability, there is no problem for our son to be the father's liver transplant donor. After all, someone has tried this and the operation has been successful. We can rest assured that there is such a precedent to pave the way for us.