What is liver transplantation

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I thought liver transplantation was far away from us, but it was not like this. Last week, when I went to my uncle's house, I told me that my aunt had a very serious problem with her liver, so we need to use liver transplantation. Let's talk about liver transplantation.

What is liver transplantation

First, according to the site of liver graft, it can be divided into orthotopic liver transplantation and heterotopic liver transplantation. Orthotopic liver transplantation can be divided into classic liver transplantation and piggyback liver transplantation according to the different anastomoses of donor liver vein and recipient inferior vena cava. In order to solve the problem of shortage of donor liver and liver transplantation in children, living donor partial liver transplantation has appeared one after another.

Second: in addition, there are auxiliary liver transplantation, liver and heart, kidney and other organ transplantation. At present, orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is the most popular technique in the world. In short, the donor liver is implanted into the recipient's original liver according to the normal anatomical structure of the human body after the patient's diseased liver is removed.

Third: Generally speaking, liver transplantation is not suitable for patients with the following conditions: extrahepatic malignant tumor which is difficult to cure; infection which is difficult to control; alcoholics or drug addicts who are difficult to quit; organic diseases of important organs such as heart, lung, brain and kidney; psychopathy or mental disease which is difficult to control.

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In general, liver transplantation is a very large operation, not only requires the patient's physical fitness to have a certain intensity, the most important thing is to find a suitable donor liver for the patient, which is very high for the hospital, generally takes a long time.