MediEase recommends outstanding medical facilities when compared to any western countries. It has a coalition with different reputed hospitals all over India which offers an affordable and reasonable treatment/ surgery rates including liver transplantation.

Well known physician may counsel a liver transplant when all other treatment alternatives fail. The reason for transplantation is to reinstate your disease affected liver into healthy and unaffected liver. Preferably after transplant, you will be gratis from disease and can lead a normal life as long as the substituted liver functions.

Clues For Liver Transplant Consist Of:

• Hepatitis B.
• Hepatitis C.
• Alcohol induced cirrhosis.
• Autoimmune Hepatitis.
• Liver tumours.
• Acute/fulminant liver failure.

Donor Transplantation

This is actually a planned operation where both the donor and recipient will be involved to undertake a pre-surgical testing a week before the transplant. This testing comprises blood test, EKG, chest X rays and an interaction with the anaesthesiologist. Both the donor and recipient will be admitted in hospital in the morning of the surgery day. Besides the donor will be hospitalized for at least 7-10 days after surgery.

On the other hand, family members of the donor can meet the donor after the treatment procedure is ended. At the first stage, the contributor will be kept in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for close observation and the person may be connected for cardiac monitor, intravenous lines, tubes and drains. When the condition of the donor is steady, he or she will be transferred to the general ward where they can complete their recovery process and learn how to take care for themselves at home. In fact, the standard length of stay in hospital for liver transplantation is 2-3 weeks.

Impediment

According to the surgical procedure, complication may occur following to liver transplantation.

Haemorrhage

There may be a little threat of bleeding from the place where the donor and the recipient blood vessels are stitched together.

Negative Response

After liver transplantation, your body will identify your new organ as unknown and immune cells may hit the transplanted organs. But such condition can be easily handled through medication. Infectivity At certain condition, your immune system will stifle after transplant making you risk more for positive infection.

Life After A Liver Transplant

After a liver transplant, the person will experience different things in life but he or she has to take care about themselves before they leave the hospital. Many of the donors can recover their health in just three months and start indulging in their normal daily work and live a healthy life. The aim is to provide intensive care and go for regular check up with your physicians in order to make a better and worthy life than before.

Regarding Liver Transplant:

• It will treat advance steps of cirrhosis.
• It can be performed to close relative with similar blood group.
• If it is done in initial stage then it holds 80% success rates.
• After transplant, donor can live a normal life.

Precautions

Patients should be very careful and learn to identify the signs of infection and rejection that can be informed to any local physician or transplant team right away. These consist of fever that continues for above 2 days, shortness of breath, cough that contain yellowish or greenish substance, a dry cough that is constant for over a week, long-term nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Avoiding infection

Patient immune system can hamper because of immuno suppressive medications. Donors need to protect themselves deliberately from infection after the surgery by taking the following precautions.

• Wash down hands frequently
• Remain hands away from face and mouth
• Problem in breathing
• Excuse yourself from those people who have cough and other infections
• Request your friends to meet you only when they are in good healthy condition
• If the patient has injury and dressing is done then make sure that you wash your hands before and after.