Transplant Process. Before a liver transplant, you’ll be referred to a transplant center, evaluated by a transplant team, and if approved, placed on the national waiting list for a deceased donor. If you have a living donor, the transplant center won’t place you on the national waiting list and will schedule your surgery.
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/liver-disease/liver-transplant
Doctors perform liver transplant surgery by removing your liver and replacing it with a donor’s liver. Liver transplant surgery can take up to 12 hours or longer. For a deceased donor transplant, surgery starts when the donor liver arrives at the hospital.
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/liver-disease/liver-transplant
The score uses blood tests to determine how urgently you need a liver transplant within the next three months. The sicker you are, the higher your MELD score; scores range from six (less ill) to 40 (critically ill). In the Bay Area, there are many more people who need liver transplants than there are donors.
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/getting_a_liver_transplant/
This will depend on many things, such as: 1  why you needed a liver transplant. 2  how old you were at the time of the transplant. 3  whether you have any side effects from your medication or not.  potential complications following the 1  transplant. how you felt before your transplant.  your general outlook on 1  life. the support you have from your loved  ones.
http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/after-liver-transplant-q-and-a.htm
What is the liver, and what is its function. The liver is the body's largest internal organ, weighing about 3 pounds in adults. It is located below the diaphragm on the right side of the abdomen. The liver performs many complex functions in the body, including: Produces most proteins needed by the body.
http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_transplant/article.htm
Another option is to receive a piece of liver from a living donor, called a living donor transplant. Living donor transplants carry risks for both the donor and the recipient, and not everyone is a candidate.
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/getting_a_liver_transplant/
A split liver or a partial liver transplant. Livers from young donors may be split into two pieces that are transplanted into two recipients. Getting a piece of a liver rather than a whole one may increase the risk of bleeding, problems with the bile duct and problems with the liver not working well.
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/getting_a_liver_transplant/
Liver transplantation is considered when the liver no longer functions adequately (liver failure). Liver failure can occur suddenly (acute liver failure) as a result of infection or complications from certain medications or it can be the end result of a long-term problem. Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis.
http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_transplant/article.htm
Cirrhosis of the liver is the end result of chronic injury to the liver from various causes. A cirrhotic liver is shrunken and fibrosed and. thus loses its ability secrete bilirubin ; make various proteins (i.e., coagulation proteins, albumin , immune antibodies), and clear toxins. from the blood like ammonia.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gastroenterology_hepatology/_pdfs/liver/liver_transplant_workup.pdf
Rejection is when the donor liver is attacked by your body's immune system. Anti-rejection tablets prevent this from happening. About 40% of patients experience some acute (early) rejection. This often happens whilst still in hospital following your transplant, and is treatable. A small number of patients experience chronic (late) rejection; this is often more difficult to treat.
http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/after-liver-transplant-q-and-a.htm
how does a liver transplant work
Doctors perform liver transplant surgery by removing your liver and replacing it with a donor’s liver.