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.
A Transplanted Patient: A personal view of what it is like to have a liver transplant and operation procedures, both before and afterwards. Details about the liver and Q&A format concerning transplantation.
eMedicine Health: Liver Transplant Overview: Consumer health resource center providing information on the risks and benefits of liver transplants.
European Liver Transplant Registry: (ELTR) summarizes the results of about 40,000 liver transplantations in 35,000 patients from 120 centers of 20 countries.
Jackson Gastroenterology: Liver Transplant: Overview of reasons for transplant, evaluation, and transplant centers. Includes information about surgery, recovery, and organ donation.
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.
Liver Transplant: Provides basic information and answers to common questions. Includes patient success story. [Story requires free RealPlayer download.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rays Liver Transplant: Story of my battle with hepatitis-C, my two liver transplants and also my post transplant years.
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.
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.