Liver Transplantation
Indications
- for End-stage organ failure
Due to
- chronic liver disease
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Chronic hepatitis B
- chronic hepatitis C
- better prognosis even though reinfection occurs
- autoimmune hepatitis
- alcoholic liver disease
- if managed to stop drinking
- Primary metabolic disorders
- Wilson's
- alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Fulminant hepatitis
- Hep B
- Paracetamol overdose
Contra-indications
- metastatic malignancy
- HIV infections
- Anatomical complications
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