Only 20 years old can donate liver

The Ministry of Health has issued Decision No. 43/2006 / QD-BYT on the issuance of a technical procedure for kidney transplantation from live donors and a procedure for liver transplantation from live donors.

An organ transplant at Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi.(Photo: Pham Hang)

Accordingly, for recipients, there must be biliary diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and fulminant liver failure due to causes (drug, poisoning, virus and weaknesses). other factors) that other treatments do not work.

In the case of patients with non-hepatic cancer, mental illness, progressive infection, HIV infection, heart failure, respiratory failure, multiple organ failure cannot be performed with liver transplantation.

People over 65 years of age do not have a liver transplant.

For liver donors, the donor must be completely voluntary for the liver part and have a voluntary application; age 20-55, suitable for blood type, minimum immunological appropriate tests are 25%; normal selection indicators; Suitable volume of liver and blood vessels.

The selection of the graft is also prescribed, for the donor, the remaining volume of liver is over 40% of the standard liver volume of the donor, and for the recipient of the liver transplant piece accounts for more than 50% of the standard liver volume of the person. receive.

The decision also provides a procedure for pre-transplantation for donors and recipients, the procedure for liver transplants for donors, procedures for liver transplantation, procedures for post-operative follow-up and follow-up .

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