A healthy liver is a vital part of the digestion of food, leaking toxins into the bloodstream, producing important proteins and hormones, and only stay alive in general. Fortunately for humans, this organ has an incredible ability to repair itself when damaged by exposure to viruses, bacteria or toxins. Unfortunately, if the damage is too extensive, self-repair may not be possible.
In this case, there is nothing doctors can do now to reverse the damage caused, is their best hope of stopping the spread of damage. In severe cases, patients may need a transplant from a healthy donor to survive. Unfortunately, these surgeries are very expensive, difficult to organize, and available only to people who meet specific requirements.
Who is eligible?
Healthy organs from deceased persons who offered to donate them, or people in certain circumstances. For example, a portion of a person’s liver can be transported from him or her to another person, allowing both of them to live. Despite this exciting technology, the number of people who need new organs far exceeds the number of available organs.
Because of this, hospitals must ration its resources only in the performance of transplants in patients who are more likely to survive. The theory is that the medical care that we can be assigned to those who will benefit most from it. At the same time, priority is given to people who are in imminent danger of dying if they are not subjected to the operation.
A person may be found ineligible if he or she has a condition that is likely to miss the proceedings. Examples of such conditions include:
* Metastasis (spread throughout the body) of cancer
* Addiction to alcohol or other drugs
* Diseases such as HIV or other life-threatening infections
* Co-morbid and terminal heart or lung conditions
* Severe brain injury associated with the original condition
While not necessarily impossible for a person with one of these conditions to receive a donated organ, his fight will be much more difficult.
Aftermath
After surgery is completed, the patient still has a long recovery period in front of him or her. He or she may have a full medication regimen to reduce the risk of infection and his body rejecting the new organ. It may also be three months or more before he or she feels well enough to resume normal activities of life.
Fortunately, the long-term survival for such a procedure is high. Many people who have been going to live long and productive lives.
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