Who needs a Liver Transplant?
Who needs a Liver Transplant?
In accordance with international guidelines, any patient with cirrhosis of the liver and estimated to live less than a year should be considered as a candidate for transplantation. The severity of the liver disease is graded from A to C. Generally, grades B and C are offered transplants. A patient with CPT hepatocellular carcinoma is also being considered for transplantation.
Patients with any of the symptoms of liver failure listed below should seek specialist advice so that a liver specialist can assess whether transplantation or drug treatment is appropriate for them. In any case, the better the patient’s condition at the time of transplantation, the better the results of the operation.
If your liver is affected by the following conditions, it can lead to acute or chronic liver failure and may require a liver transplant
- Chronic liver diseases
- Acute liver failure
- Viral illnesses such as Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Non alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Tendency for blockage of blood vessels of liver
- Developmental malformations of liver as in biliary atresia in children
- Autoimmune hepatitis, biliary cirrhosis, Wilson’s disease etc
- Sometimes from still unknown factors
- Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E
- consumption of large amount of acetaminophen
- Some drugs like which are toxic to liver
- Rat Poison
- Wilsons disease, autoimmune hepatitis
- Unknown reasons