Year 2011 Vol. 19 No 1

TRANSPLANTOLOGY

WROBLEWSKI T.

LIVER TRANSPLANT PROGRAM IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL, TRANSPLANT AND LIVER SURGERY, MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

Liver transplantation is one of the most complicated surgical interventions demanding not only high skills of surgeons but also a thoroughly organized system of patients’ preparing as well as a reliable coordination of actions of various services, high-tech equipment and the system of postoperative observation. In the given article the questions the foundation history of the service of liver transplantation in Poland are illustrated as well as modern demands and possibilities of this service.
The described approaches to the determining indications and tactics choice of surgical interventions are based on 805 liver transplantations for more than a 20-year period. Such a wide experience permits not only to determine the complications frequency but also to present the results of patients’ survival with various pathologies.

Keywords: orthotopic liver transplantation, liver transplantation program, indications, complications, liver cirrhosis, primarily sclerosing cholangitis, liver-cellular cancer
p. 63 – 67 of the original issue
References
  1. The Department’s data archive
  2. Poltransplant Information Buletin. - 2010. - Vol.18, N1.
  3. www.poltransplant.org.pl
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