Candidates for Receiving a Liver from a Living
Donor
Most patients who are evaluated and found to
be acceptable candidates for liver transplantation
can be considered for adult-to-adult living donor
transplantation. However, each recipient has to
be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Recipients who may not be candidates for
receiving a partial liver may include those who:
- are overweight
- older age
- have had prior abdominal surgery
- have associated medical conditions that would
require the patient to receive a whole liver
rather than just a single lobe
- are either too sick or too well to undergo
living donor liver transplantation
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