Liver transplantation difficulties and perspective
- Author:
Le The Trung
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Liver
- MeSH:
Liver Transplantation;
liver;
Transplantation
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
2004;0(7):6-9
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Through 2 first cases of liver transplantation (1 in Military Medicine University with technical assistance of Japanese specialists and 1 case of Vietnamese patient transplanted in Guang Zhou, China), author mentioned difficulties of liver transplantation: liver transplantation is quite different from kidney transplantation; it’s required modern biomedical equipments and staffs that were skilled biomedical technology of liver transplantation; cost of this procedure is high. However, filtering machine was made by scientists. As a result, patients with acute hepatic insufficiency and malignant liver diseases should be received assistant therapies that help them live longer and sufficiently treat before and after liver transplantation
