What Is Autoimmune Hepatitis & Why Is It So Serious?

Liver Transplant Recovery

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Patients who do not respond to drugs that may help their autoimmune hepatitis or who have a great deal of scarring in their liver can opt for a liver transplant. A liver transplant is also a solution when the disease starts to cause the liver to fail. The patient's diseased liver is replaced with a healthy one donated from a corpse. They can also have part of a healthy liver from a living person, as the liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate itself.

Liver transplant recovery begins in the intensive care unit of the hospital, where the patient is kept for about two days. After this, they are kept in the regular hospital unit for about week to ten days before they are discharged. Full recovery takes about three months. Most patients make a good recovery, but it is still possible for the disease to strike the transplanted liver.

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