4064 x 2704 px | 34,4 x 22,9 cm | 13,5 x 9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
11. November 2008
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Surgeons performing a liver transplant at the Samsung Medical Centre, South Korea. A liver transplant is an operation where your diseased liver is removed and replaced with a healthy donor human liver. Although liver transplants are now quite common, the operation is not undertaken lightly.It is a major operation and the body will always see the 'new' liver as a foreign agent and will try to destroy it. This means that if you have a livertransplant you will have to take medication for the rest of your life in orderto stop your body rejecting the donor liver. The main causes of severe liver damage that lead to people needing a transplant are cirrhosis, hepatitis, metabolic conditions (problems with the physical and chemical proccesses that take place inside your liver to keep you alive) and paracetamol poisoning.
