LIVER DOCTOR AND LIVER TRANSPLANT SPECIALIST

Now a days, liver transplantation is the most successful surgery (>90% survival) for medical therapy failed liver disease patients.

Indications for liver transplantation:

• End Stage Liver Disease (ESLD) due to
1. Viral Hepatitis (HBV & HCV)
2. Alcoholic Liver Disease
3. NASH (Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis)
4. Cholestatic Liver Disease (Biliary atresia, PBC)
5. Metabolic Liver Disease (Ex: Wilson)
6. Autoimmune Liver Disease
7. Vascular Disease (BCS)
• Malignant Diseases of the liver – Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Acute Liver Failure (Infection, Toxin, Idiopathic)

Criteria used for liver transplantation:

1. MELD score for chronic liver disease
2. King’s college criteria for acute liver failure
3. Milan’s (or) UCSF criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma

Types of liver transplantation:

1. Deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT)
2. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)
3. Split liver transplantation
4. Auxillary liver transplantation
5. Domino liver transplantation
6. Combined liver & kidney transplantation
7. Segmental liver transplantation
8. Swap liver transplantation