Who are Candidates for Transplant?

Patients referred to the transplant team may be experiencing the following:

• End-stage liver disease (which could be caused by cirrhosis or scarring of the liver from diagnoses such as viral hepatitis)
• No reasonable alternative treatment for liver disease
• Fulminant Hepatic Failure
• Life-threatening upper gastrointestinal bleeding
• Development of hepatorenal syndrome
• Recurrent encephalopathy that can't be managed with conventional therapy
• Liver cancer without evidence of metastases (spreading)