How about a liver transplant

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Before, I always thought that liver transplantation was far away from all of us, but recently I found that it was not like this. A relative of my uncle's family said that liver transplantation was needed because his liver could not supply the normal activities of human body. Let's talk about liver transplantation.

How about a liver transplant

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

Third: systemic examination before liver transplantation is mainly to evaluate the function of heart, lung, kidney and other important organs, mental state, nutritional status and infectious diseases. Specifically, it can be divided into three categories: routine examination, special examination and individualized examination.

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In general, liver transplantation will bring great physical harm to patients, and the probability of rejection is very large, but we must clearly know that this is a very effective way to treat liver diseases, it is necessary.