What conditions does liver transplantation need

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Liver transplantation is a process of implanting a healthy heart into the body of patients with advanced liver cancer or liver failure by surgery. It is a kind of treatment that can make patients recover well. Now let's talk about the conditions for liver transplantation.

What conditions does liver transplantation need

First, liver transplantation should be performed in the following patients. In principle, when various acute or chronic liver diseases can not be cured by other methods of surgery and surgery, and death is expected to be unavoidable in a short period (6-12 months), transplantation can be considered.

The second: currently considered absolutely not suitable for liver transplantation: 1. There are uncontrollable infections (including bacteria, fungi, virus infection); 2. HIV infection; 3. It is difficult to give up alcohol or drug dependence; 4. People with irreversible brain damage; 5. There are malignant tumors outside the liver that are difficult to cure; 6. There are uncontrollable psychological disorders or neuropathy.

Third, the following personnel are not considered for liver transplantation: 1. The recipient's age is more than or equal to 65 years old or less than 1 year old; 2. There are difficulties in surgical anatomy; 3. Advanced liver cancer; 4. There are serious heart, lung, kidney and other important organ diseases; 5. There is a history of mental illness. Of course, this is only relative. Clinically, it needs to be determined according to the respective conditions of patients.

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Liver transplantation can be divided into orthotopic liver transplantation and heterotopic liver transplantation. However, when considering liver transplantation, patients should first do a pre-operative examination to determine whether they are suitable for surgery, but for patients with liver disease, liver transplantation is the best treatment.