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  Liver Transplantation
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  Preventative Care for Liver Disease
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  Comprehensive Care for Liver Diseases (Jaundice, Hepatitis, Fatty Liver, Cirrhosis)
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  Advance Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
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  Advanced Hepatobiliary Surgery
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  Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
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  Laparoscopic Liver Resection
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  Laparoscopic Whipples Resection

The liver is the largest solid organ in the body. It removes toxins from the bodys blood supply, maintains healthy blood sugar levels, regulates blood clotting, and performs hundreds of other vital functions. It is located beneath the rib cage in the right upper abdomen.

Cirrhosis of the liver is a late-stage liver disease, in which healthy liver tissue has been gradually replaced with scar tissue. This is a result of long-term, chronic hepatitis. Hepatitis is inflammation in your liver, which has many causes. When inflammation is ongoing, your liver attempts to repair itself by scarring. But too much scar tissue prevents your liver from working properly. The end stage is chronic liver failure.

A wide range of diseases and conditions can damage the liver and lead to cirrhosis

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  Swelling in the legs and abdomen
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  Enlargement of the spleen.
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  Blood vomiting
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  Infections
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  Buildup of toxins in the brain leading to altered brain function
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  Jaundice
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  Increased risk of liver cancer
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  Renal Failure

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  Alcohol should be consumed only in moderation
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  Eat a healthy diet
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  Maintain a healthy weight.
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  Reduce your risk of hepatitis B and C.

Liver transplantation involves the replacement of the whole of a patient's liver with that from a donor. Most donations occur from people who have an acute terminal illness and who had expressed an intention to donate their organs after death, a process called cadaveric donation. A healthy person may also donate a part of their liver to a relative in a process called Live Related Liver Donation (LRLD).

Patients will normally spend 2-4 weeks in hospital to recover after transplant surgery, and a full recovery can take up to six months. They will have to take a number of new medications to help look after their new liver. In particular, they will need to be on life-long immunosuppression medication to prevent rejection.

A patient's general health and physical condition needs to be sufficiently robust to successfully undergo transplant surgery, so it is important to consider the potential need for transplantation earlier rather than later in patients with advanced liver disease, whilst they are still relatively well.

The most common reason for needing a liver transplant is when a patient's own liver has extensive and irreversible damage and is starting to fail. This is called end-stage liver disease or decompensated cirrhosis. A liver specialist can use liver disease severity scoring systems to predict when a patient may need a transplant, though good clinical judgment and experience are also vital. Liver transplantation is also sometimes performed as an operation to treat some forms of primary liver cancer, called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

This operation is carried out with the intent of curing the cancer. Rarely, liver transplantation is used a life-saving procedure in patients with acute liver failure, a condition that can deteriorate rapidly over a number of days, and which if untreated can lead to multi-organ failure and death.