Transplant

See also:

• Health: Medicine: Surgery: Transplant  (37)

eMedicine Health: Liver Transplant Overview - - Consumer health resource center providing information on the risks and benefits of liver transplants.

European Liver Transplant Registry - - (ELTR) summarizes the results of about 40,000 liver transplantations in 35,000 patients from 120 centers of 20 countries.

Jackson Gastroenterology: Liver Transplant - - Overview of reasons for transplant, evaluation, and transplant centers. Includes information about surgery, recovery, and organ donation.

Liver Transplant - - Provides basic information and answers to common questions. Includes patient success story. [Story requires free RealPlayer download..

Liver Transplant Support Online - - Information, chats, and message boards for pre- and post-transplant patients. Includes news, medications and research, concerns, jokes, poems, and journals.

Liver Transplantation - - Describes the transplant process, and provides a link to the most current list of free publications available from the National Institutes of Health.

New Zealand Liver Transplant Recipients Website - - Provides information, personal experiences and contact people for all recipients, care givers and interested people. Donors, fact sheets and The Liver are three sections.

A Patient's Guide to Liver Transplant Surgery - - Detailed before, during, and after surgery information, including the transplant team, medications, and organ donation. Transplant tour has surgery photos.

Rays Liver Transplant - - Story of my battle with hepatitis-C, my two liver transplants and also my post transplant years.

The Tiger Fund - Helping Needy Organ Donor and Transplant Families - - Information about transplantation, organ donation, the needs of liver patients, and programs to support patients.

A Transplanted Patient - - A personal view of what it is like to have a liver transplant and operation procedures, both before and afterwards. Details about the liver and Q&A format concerning transplantation.

UT Memphis Liver Center - - Specializes in hepatology transplant and research services.

What I Need to Know About Liver Transplantation - - Article from NDDIC that explains the reasons for transplant, what happens during and after surgery, rejection, and how to care for the new liver.