Liver transplantation

lower slot on the list. One side argues that alcoholics should get equal access to new livers and that all should be placed on the waiting list regardless of the reason that they are in need of a new liver. The other side believes in what is known as maximum benefit, or the idea that alcoholics should not be excluded from the list, but should be placed behind many others, resulting in a very small chance of receiving a new liver. In their paper “Should Alcoholics Compete Equally for Liver Transplantation”, Alvin H. Moss and Mark Siegler seek to determine just this. Moss and Siegler argue the second view, maximum benefit, and say that alcoholics should be placed at the bottom of the transplant waiting list. They claim that because liver transplants are a “non-renewable, absolutely scarce resource” they should go to those who have a greater chance of having a full life after receiving a new liver. (Moss, Siegler pg. 224). I will expand on Moss…

In “Alcoholics and Liver Transplantation”, Carl Cohen and Martin Benjamin discuss whether alcoholics should get equally organs like others (patients) and who should receive transplanted organs. This is one of the most issues that arises and brings attention to the public. Cohen and Benjamin present this discussion by providing two arguments. The first argument is moral. Base on moral, alcoholics should not get the treatment for their transplantations. The reason is that they should blame for…

ABOUT LIVER TRANSPLANTATION What is a liver transplant? A liver transplant is a procedure performed to replace a diseased liver with a healthy liver from another person. During the liver transplantation surgery, the surgeon removes the diseased liver and replaces it with a healthy one. The surgery generally takes 4 - 12 hours to perform, and patients stay in the hospital for up to 3 weeks after the surgery. Most patients return to normal or near-normal activities 6 - 12 months following the…

Presently, a severe discrepancy exists between the number of liver transplant candidates and the number of donor livers available for transplantation in the United States. The second most common cause of liver disease requiring transplantation is due to alcoholic cirrhosis. Data regarding deaths of listed candidates feeds to controversy regarding the distribution and allocation of donor organs, in particular, criteria for the selection of patients who will remain recovered from alcoholism…

the decisions made during these difficult instances affect the patient, the patient’s family members, and those involved in the care. Organ transplantation has many ethically controversial debates from all points of view, including the recipient, the donor and the caregivers involved, and these predicaments forecast life or death on the patients implicated. Mr. Mann and Mrs. Bay have serious illnesses that have caused liver cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease, and they both need organ…

Introduction Liver transplantation (LT) is a well-established curative therapy for irreversible chronic end-stage liver disease or acute liver failure (1-3). Since the introduction of the liver transplant procedure, it has been a standard approach to give postoperative ventilation in children and exact timing of extubation is usually debatable but it has been noted that early or even immediate extubation may be a feasible approach nowadays (4-6). It is important to assess timing of extubation…

small list of those that are matches arise. Conferring this system, liver decisions break down into medical urgency and distance from donor. ( UNOS Matching organs, 2015) Due to the viability of the donor liver only lasting a few hours. This method has been the standard for the ethical treatment of organ allocation. UNOS uses the medical entitlement method to allocate organs, a fair and balanced system that benefits the patients in need and is always up to date with the latest…

BACKGROUND OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS Cirrhosis, also called hepatic fibrosis is a chronic disease that causes cell destruction and scarring of hepatic tissues. Scar tissues form because of long term disease or injury. Cirrhosis impairs the liver’s ability to function normally because scar tissue can not do what healthy liver tissue does. Scar tissue replaces the healthy liver tissue and blocks the normal flow of blood through the liver. Cirrhosis is a potentially life threatening condition because it…

Developmental and speech therapy can also help. For example, having strong verbal skills can help make up for other weaknesses. Other treatments are based on the person's symptoms. It can help to have treatment coordinated by a geneticist who is experienced with Williams syndrome. Alagille Syndrome Alagille syndrome is a genetic disorder that can affect the liver, heart, and other parts of the body. One of the major features of Alagille syndrome is liver damage caused by abnormalities in the…

Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic inflammatory, multisystem disease in which the body attacks its own liver cells. There are two known forms of this chronic, long-lasting disease. Type 1, being the most common making up eighty percent of autoimmune hepatitis cases, affects mostly young women and often goes hand in hand with other autoimmune diseases. Forty percent of Type 1 AIH cases are diagnosed before the age of 18.Type 2 is less common affecting women ages 2 to 14. It is shown in many…