Transplant

eMedicine Health: Liver Transplant Overview - Consumer health resource center providing information on the risks and benefits of liver transplants.
www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/13891-1.asp

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

Jackson Gastroenterology: Liver Transplant - Overview of reasons for transplant, evaluation, and transplant centers. Includes information about surgery, recovery, and organ donation.
www.gicare.com/pated/epdlv44.htm

Liver Kids: Transplantation - Offers a description of this procedure, what conditions are treated with transplant, risks involved, what happens after surgery, anti-rejection medications, and rejection.
www.kinsey.id.au/liverkids/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=35

Liver Transplant - Provides basic information and answers to common questions. Includes patient success story. [Story requires free RealPlayer download.]
www.debakeydepartmentofsurgery.org/home/content.cfm?proc_name=liver+transplant&content_id=272

Liver Transplant - eMedicine article discusses types of transplant surgeries, how patient need is determined, and types of donors. Includes exams and tests, self-care at home, medications, and when to seek medical care.
www.emedicinehealth.com/liver_transplant/article_em.htm

Liver Transplant - From the University of Illinois Medical Center. Explains who is a candidate, how the procedure is performed, what happens after, and potential complications.
uimc.discoveryhospital.com/main.php?id=882

Liver Transplant - Mayo Clinic article discusses the process from determining need through post-transplant treatment. Includes waiting for a donor organ and preparing for the surgery.
www.mayoclinic.com/health/liver-transplant/DG00037

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.
forums.delphiforums.com/n/nav/start.asp?webtag=livertransplant

Liver Transplantation - Gastroenterology textbook explains the history of this procedure, indications for and against transplant, pre-operative procedures, post-operative management, immunosuppression, and recent advances.
gastroresource.com/GITextbook/en/chapter14/14-15.htm

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.
digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/livertransplant/

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.
www.livers.org.nz

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.
www.livertransplant.org/patientguide/index.html

Rays Liver Transplant - Story of my battle with hepatitis-C, my two liver transplants and also my post transplant years.
www.geocities.com/downshift1/

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.
www.tigerfund.org

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.
digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/livertransplant_ez/index.htm