Which Patients are Candidate Recipients?

Patients suffering from incurable liver disease with associated complications such as abdominal fluid accumulation, loss of consciousness, peritonitis, decreased life quality, etc.) are candidates for liver transplantation.

Diseases that could lead to incurable liver diseases

1: Acute liver failure (due to mushroom, drug, etc. poisoning)
2: Congenital absence of bile duct
3: Metabolical diseases:

• o Alpha-I antitrypsin deficiency

• o Crigler-Najjar disease, Type I

• o Byler disease

• o Glycogen storage diseases

• o Wilson disease

• o Hemochromatosis

• o Tyrosinemia

• o Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy

• o Primary hyperoxaluria type 1

4: Liver cirrhosis (Reasons can be Hepatittis B,C, Alcohol, NASH, etc)
5: Hepatic vascular diseases
6: Liver tumors