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Hepatic Transplantation |
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Liver Transplantation |
| Definitions |
<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The most common reason for a transplant in adults is <a href="https://medlineplus.gov/cirrhosis.html">cirrhosis</a>. 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 <a href="https://medlineplus.gov/bileductdiseases.html">bile ducts</a>.</p> <p>If you have a transplant, you must take drugs the rest of your life to help keep your body from rejecting the new liver.</p> <p class="">NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases</p> |
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0023911 |
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Liver Transplantation Hepatic transplantation |
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C0023911 |
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07/13/1999 |
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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 Diseases |
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| MP OTHER LANGUAGE URL |
Spanish https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/livertransplantation.html |
| MP PRIMARY INSTITUTE URL |
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases https://www.niddk.nih.gov |
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C0023911 |
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Hepatic Transplantation |
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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0023890 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0023895 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0029216 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0019196 |
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Understand the facts about liver transplantation. Read about risks, outlook and the process for getting a liver transplant.https://medlineplus.gov/livertransplantation.html |
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T061 |
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