Summary:
We were preparing for all this before launching our transplant programme,” said Dr Gaurav Gupta, liver transplant surgeon at Wockhardt, which is soon starting the transplant programme. It also means that post-operative infection management strategies in liver transplant need to be the best.“Patients requiring liver transplant carry many resistant bugs with them and post-operatively they are prone to both viral and fungal infections. These infections are much more in a liver failure patient and hence infection management plays a bigger role in liver transplant than other organs transplants.For liver transplant, the cure rate is always better when the person is referred early or timely for the transplant. Hence, besides the operation theatre the liver transplant intensive care unit requires all the protective measures like isolation rooms, positive pressure ventilation. The one-year survival rate after liver transplant is about 90%, but after that the survival increases minimum by 10 years..