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Looking for Blood Type "O" for a Live Liver Donor
Call For Action: Can you help
A giving and purposeful woman requires your help! She has dedicated her life to helping others, Can You Help Her?
So We need a Living Donor Liver Transplant also known as an “LDLT”. The person that is in need lives in San Diego County and has been a vital person for people’s interests in every part of our time zone, working up to 7 days a week, her entire life, from Real Estate, Finance, Taxes, and Property Management.
Looking for a Living Donor for a liver transplant!
Bali is Looking for a Liver Transplant
Do you know an awesome person? Are you that person? Please help me!
Do the donor and recipient have to be related?
No, the donor and recipient do not have to be blood relatives, but they must be determined to be medically compatible. When someone gives an organ to a specific person with whom they are medically compatible, it’s called a “directed donation.” In a directed donation, a donor may be:
* A blood relative of the recipient, such as a parent, sister, brother, or adult child.
Someone close to the recipient, such as a spouse, friend, or co-worker.
* Someone who the donor has heard about, but does not know personally.
If a person wants to donate an organ to help a stranger on the waiting list, it’s called a “non-directed donation.” A transplant hospital can match a non-directed donor with a compatible transplant candidate. Some non-directed donors would like to meet their transplant recipient; however, that can happen only if the donor and recipient both wish to meet.
A living-donor liver transplant Procedure
A living-donor liver transplant is a surgical procedure in which a portion of the liver from a healthy living person is removed and placed into someone whose liver is no longer working properly.
The donor's remaining liver regrows and returns to its normal size, volume and capacity within a couple of months after the surgery. At the same time, the transplanted liver portion grows and restores normal liver function in the recipient.
Why it's done
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Begin the process of becoming a living kidney or liver donor by clicking here to complete a Health History Questionnaire.
The number of people waiting for a liver transplant greatly exceeds the number of available deceased-donor livers. Living-donor liver transplant offers an alternative to waiting for a deceased-donor liver.
Having a living liver donor also allows the recipient to avoid some possible health complications while waiting for a transplant. People who have a living-donor liver transplant seem to have fewer medical problems after the procedure than those who receive a deceased-donor liver, as well as a longer survival rate of the donated organ.
Living-donor liver transplants are more common among children who need a liver transplant than among adults because suitable deceased-donor organs are scarce.
Most living liver donors are close family members or friends of the liver transplant candidates.
What you can expect
Before the procedure
To be considered for a living-donor liver transplant, both the donor and recipient must undergo a thorough health and psychological evaluation at a transplant center. Separate transplant teams will care for the donor and recipient during the evaluation process and will discuss the potential benefits and risks of the procedure in detail.
For example, while the procedure often may be lifesaving for the recipient, donating a portion of a liver carries significant risks for the donor.
Matching of living-donor livers with recipients is based on age, blood type, organ size and other factors.
During the procedure
On the day of the transplant, surgeons will remove a portion of the donor liver for transplant through an incision in the abdomen. The specific part of the liver donated depends on the size of the donor liver and the needs of the recipient.
Next, surgeons remove the diseased liver and place the donated liver portion in the recipient's body, connecting the blood vessels and bile ducts to the new liver.
The transplanted liver in the recipient and the portion left behind in the donor regrow rapidly, reaching normal liver volume and function within a couple of months.
People who receive a liver from a living donor often have better short-term survival rates than those who receive a deceased-donor liver. But comparing long-term results is difficult because people who get a living-donor liver usually have a shorter wait for a transplant and aren't as sick as those who receive a deceased-donor liver.
Overview - Living Donor Transplant
A living-donor liver transplant is a surgical procedure in which a portion of the liver from a healthy living person is removed and placed into someone whose liver is no longer working properly. The donor's remaining liver regrows and returns to its normal size, volume, and capacity within a couple of months after the surgery. At the same time, the transplanted liver portion grows and restores normal liver function in the recipient.
Informational videos
A Living Donor Right Hepatectomy procedure is a surgery to remove the right half of an individual’s liver to be used for organ transplantation. * Liver Anatomy: Why the liver is important? * The Workup Process: How to become a living donor? * What happens during donor surgery? * What the possible risks and complications are? * What will happen after the surgery and after discharge from the hospital.
UC San Diego Health
You can use this element to explain to visito Nationally, more than 15,000 patients are waiting for a liver transplant. Approximately 6,300 persons each year will receive a new liver; 1,400 die waiting. In California, one in four listed for liver transplants will die before an organ becomes available. Fortunately, living donation is now a lifesaving option at UC San Diego Health. Living liver donation is an extraordinary gift that family and friends can make to a loved one who is suffering from advanced liver disease, said Alan Hemming, MD, professor of surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine and chief of Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at UC San Diego Health.