Living Donor Liver Transplant: How it is Done and Why it Makes Sense

[@beckyowen3573]

I wished I had learned all these things before my transplant. You have open my mind to so much information. I was one of the luck, blessed ones. My doctors told me I was a miracle 3 times during my transplant. I had a living donor, they changed their mind at the very last moment. Then I had been waiting for sometime for a match, I have a rear blood type. 2 livers became available at the very last moment. 1 matched me. Then I had a reaction to the antirejection medication. Which left me in a coma over 30 days. Yes it's been a struggle . I was in the hospital over 2 weeks prior to surgery, then 2 months following surgery. I had much to overcome. Swallow, write, stand, sit to standing position. Walk, drink, breathing exercises, A LOT !... BUT 10 MONTHS LATER I'M BETTER. 75%. I have a little kidney damage, and swelling in my legs still. I'm still healing. In fact I just had an eye exam, I couldn't see out of my glasses, well it's due to my eyes good better! Now 20/20 vision. God is still working miracles on this ol' gal. Life is sweeter when you have to fight harder for it.

[@anthonyn9808]

GOD is good

[@kums790]

Hope you recover well soon

[@GMPranav]

> Life is sweeter when you have to fight harder for it. Love this quote

[@johnthepotato6632]

Am I doing this degree? No. Am I watching this presentation to procrastinate from my actual degree? Yes.

[@dannyjjw7439]

I’m an altruistic live liver donor right lobe. I’ve been through the full assessment, spoken with the various authorities (Tissue) and independent assessors. It’s an amazingly thorough process. I would recommend to highly value nutrition before and after surgery. You really don’t need to see a nutritionist or dietician for this, there’s a lot of information online. Risk is classed as high of course but if you look at death rate, it’s global and a lot of people in other maybe less fortunate countries, have a high transplant rate but also the people involved have multiple co-morbidities (Hep B/C, undiagnosed illnesses, poor medical equipment). In the last few years, I found 5 deaths out of 800 surgeries, in highly developed countries with high level medical technology, which improves the perceived death rate quite a bit. Not gospel but it’s interesting to fully understand real risk

[@beckyowen3573]

Loved the questions and answers portions. Very impressive! Love my surgeons at Duke University Hospital. But you are a very good at making it easly understandable for those of us that are limited in liver transplants knowledge. Thank you , a great job!

[@ssoundar4808]

Great presentation! thank you!

[@NishantChoudharyJi]

It's really incredible, meticulous & outstanding efforts for excellence of whole huminity in very best manner. God bless you 🙏

[@coralbeckwith120]

In the smaller sections of liver can you aid its growth by helping cleanse the bloods till it's big enough to cope on its own.

[@7080100]

I have my Friends daughter 8yr with Williams disease. She's on top priority... Wish we could get the organs from any part of the world.... :(

[@Jason-wl1pk]

How can you ignore that OG on the second row..! Lol

[@ro1nash810]

LOL..THERE's A guy in the second row with his feet up and sleeping with hoodie pulled over..OMG ;)

[@wendyb171]

And he won’t be a good doctor

[@nitenitenurse713]

Omigosh I can’t believe it! 😂

[@beyekind12another]

The percentages don’t add up to 100 about donors feeling 100 percent and length of time to recover...

[@FRANKWOOLF2]

Everyone who receives either a whole LIV or a partial are all completely different in almost every aspect. I had a whole liver transplant five years ago and my recovery was nothing like anyone else

[@MatrixReptilian]

I hope they get that far to grow liver itself from donor DNA, not needed from recipient liver.

[@MatrixReptilian]

They said all parts of liver can grow back, veins, gallbladder, just remove damaged liver and replaced, they said. Veins should not be removed

[@acajudi100]

Executions should be harvesting the organs.

[@user-mp3eq6ir5b]

Oh, my effing sides! Monte Python IRL!!! "I'm Using It!" "Don't Muck Us About, Sir!"

[@CandyKoRn]

Wait, he said one in 10 and then his slide read 20% That would be 1 in 5, 1 in 10 is 10%.

[@LingaRajah-i1s]

Lingaraja

[@Terre11117]

My family member did it for his child. The ethics of this is not as clear as people pretend it is. It is romanticized in the press in a way I find is just wrong. The doctors told him this will likely take a decade or even decades off his life. And it still is probable the child will die. The risk of very serious, life threatening complications for the donor is common (1 in 4 or more). The support for them afterwards is nonexistent. There are almost no studies done on quality of life for the donor after. Surveys that have been done show that most donors feel like their health never returned to the same state it was ever again. And doctors know this. These surgeons have to think about what “success” really means. If you take a dying child, break the Hippocratic oath by cutting open a healthy donor to “save” the child that is one thing I suppose. But often what happens is that the child is barely saved. They prolong life for another few years of hell for the parents as they watch their child die in the coming years. This is not so simple. Just because the liver regrows does not mean it is not life altering for the donor.