Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
liver transplantation
liv·er trans·plan·ta·tion
Subclass of:
Digestive System Surgical Procedures;
Tissue Transplantation;
Organ Transplantation
Also called:
Hepatic transplantation
Definitions related to transplantation of liver:
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(liver transplantation) The transfer of a healthy liver allograft from a donor to a patient.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(liver transplantation) The transference of a part of or an entire liver from one human or animal to another.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(liver transplantation) Transference of the liver within an individual, between individuals of the same species, or between individuals of different species.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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(liver transplantation) Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It helps your body digest food, store energy, and remove poisons. You cannot live without a liver that works. If your liver fails, your doctor may put you on a waiting list for a liver transplant. Doctors do liver transplants when other treatment cannot keep a damaged liver working. During a liver transplantation, the surgeon removes the diseased liver and replaces it with a healthy one. Most transplant livers come from a donor who has died. Sometimes there is a living donor. This is when a healthy person donates part of his or her liver for a specific patient. The most common reason for a transplant in adults is cirrhosis. This is scarring of the liver, caused by injury or long-term disease. The most common reason in children is biliary atresia, a disease of the bile ducts. If you have a transplant, you must take drugs the rest of your life to help keep your body from rejecting the new liver. NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesMedlinePlusU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Research into the possibility of liver transplantation (LT) started before the 1960s with the pivotal baseline work of Thomas Starzl in Chicago and Boston, where the initial LT techniques were researched in dogs. Starzl attempted the first human LT in 1963 in Denver, but a successful LT was not achieved until 1967.WebMD, 2019
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A liver transplant is a surgical procedure that removes a liver that no longer functions properly (liver failure) and replaces it with a healthy liver from a deceased donor or a portion of a healthy liver from a living donor.Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
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