Healthy liver is an important part of digesting food, filtering toxins from the bloodstream, producing important proteins and hormones, and generally continuing to live. Fortunately for humans this organ has an incredible ability to repair when damaged by exposure to viruses, bacteria, or harmful toxins. Unfortunately, if the damage is too wide, you may not be able to repair yourself.
In this case, the doctor can not do it to undo the damage which is currently being done. Their best hope is to stop spreading any damage. In the most severe cases, patients may need to be transplanted from healthy donors to survive. Unfortunately, these surgical procedures are very expensive, difficult to arrange and can only be used by people who meet specific requirements.
Who is eligible?
Healthy organs come from deceased people who volunteered to donate them or live people in certain circumstances. For example, a part of a person's liver can carry his or her liver to others, and both people can live. Despite this interesting technology, the number of people who need new organs far exceeds the number of available organs.
For this reason, hospitals need to transplant themselves to the patients who are most likely to survive and secure resources. This theory is that medical care that we can offer should be sent to the people who benefit most. At the same time, priority is given to those who are at risk of death unless they undergo surgery.
Those who are in a state where the procedure may be unsuccessful may be deemed ineligible. As an example of such a state,
- Cancer that has metastasized (spread to the body)
- Alcohol and other drug addiction
- Diseases such as life-threatening infectious diseases such as HIV
- End-stage cardiac or pulmonary condition that may be co-affected
- Severe brain injury accompanying the original condition
It is not always impossible for people in these states to receive donated organs, but their fight will be much more difficult.
After Effect
After surgery is complete, the patient still has a long recovery period before him or her. He or she is likely to have a complete regimen to alleviate the risk of infection and rejection of the body of new organs. In addition, it may take more than three months to feel enough to resume normal lifestyle habits.
Fortunately, the long-term survival rate of this procedure is high. Many people who have received it have been living a long and vivid life.
