Liver Transplant (cont.)Medical Author:
Steve Guillen, MD
Coauthor:
Martin Black, MD, FRCP
Coauthor:
Grace Thomas, MD
Coauthor:
Robert M McNamara, MD, FAAEM
Medical Editor:
Michael D Burg, MD
Medical Editor:
Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD
Medical Editor:
James Ungar, MD
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When to Seek Medical CareCall the doctor whenever a patient with a newly transplanted liver feels unwell or has concerns about his or her medications. The patient should also call the doctor if new symptoms arise. These problems may commonly occur before a liver transplantation and indicate that a patient's liver disease is worsening. They may also occur after transplantation and be a possible sign that the liver is being rejected. The doctor may recommend that the patient be taken to a hospital emergency department for further evaluation. Rejection usually occurs in the first 1-2 weeks after the transplantation. It is common for the patient to require 1 admission to the hospital for either rejection or infection. The following are just a few examples of when to call the doctor:
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Research into the possibility of liver transplantation (LT) started before the 1960s with the pivotal baseline work of Thomas Starzl in Chicago and Boston, where the initial LT techniques were researched in dogs.
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