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===Immunosuppressive management=== | ===Immunosuppressive management=== | ||
* | * Postimplant immunosuppression ensures survival of the patient and allograft. | ||
* | * Immunosuppressive agents used in patients receiving a liver transplant include the following: | ||
* | ** Cyclosporine | ||
** Everolimus | |||
** Mycophenolate | |||
** Corticosteroids | |||
** Azathioprine | |||
** Tacrolimus | |||
** Sirolimus | |||
* Agents used for induction include: | |||
** High-dose corticosteroids | |||
** Antithymocyte globulin | |||
** Monoclonal antibody | |||
** Azathioprine | |||
** Cyclosporine/Tacrolimus (calcineurin inhibitors) | |||
** Antiproliferative agents | |||
* Agents for long-term immunosuppression: | |||
** Cyclosporine or Mycophenolate Mofetil | |||
** Tacrolimus | |||
** Azathioprine | |||
** Prednisone | |||
* | |||
* Liver transplantation is unique in that the risk of chronic rejection also decreases over time,although recipients need to take immunosuppresive medication for the rest of their lives. | * Liver transplantation is unique in that the risk of chronic rejection also decreases over time,although recipients need to take immunosuppresive medication for the rest of their lives. | ||
* It is theorized that the liver may play a yet-unknown role in the maturation of certain cells pertaining to the [[immune system]]. | * It is theorized that the liver may play a yet-unknown role in the maturation of certain cells pertaining to the [[immune system]]. | ||
* There is at least one study by Dr. Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh which consisted of [[bone marrow]] [[biopsies]] taken from such patients which demonstrate genotypic [[chimerism]] in the bone marrow of liver transplant recipients. | * There is at least one study by Dr. Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh which consisted of [[bone marrow]] [[biopsies]] taken from such patients which demonstrate genotypic [[chimerism]] in the bone marrow of liver transplant recipients. | ||
===Results=== | ===Results=== |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Liver transplantation or hepatic transplantation is the replacement of a diseased liver with a healthy liver allograft. The most commonly used technique is orthotopic transplantation, in which the native liver is removed and the donor organ is placed in the same anatomic location as the original liver. Liver transplantation nowadays is a well accepted treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure.
Liver Transplantation
History
- In the 1960s, Thomas Starzl used dogs as the first animals for research on liver transplantation in Boston and Chicago.
- In 1963, the first liver transplant in humans was attempted by a surgical team led by Dr. Thomas Starzl[1] of Denver, Colorado, United States.
- Dr. Starzl performed several additional transplants over the next few years before the first short-term success was achieved in 1967 with the first one-year survival post-transplantation.
- In 1970, the regimen for immunosuppressive therapy following transplant was introduced, but azathioprine and steroids did not improve survival rates of patients.
- In the 1980s, with the introduction of cyclosporine by Sir Roy Calne, there was an improvement in rejection rates.
- In 1983, liver transplantation was no longer an experimental modality, but a clinically acceptable form of therapy for both adult and pediatric patients with appropriate indications.
- In 1986, the introduction of monoclonal antibodies such as muromonab-CD3 [OKT3] further contributed to improvement of quality of immunosuppressive therapy used in patients, with significant decline in rejection rates.
- In 1988, University of Wisconsin (UW) solution was developed, which ensured a smooth surgery and longer preservation period.
- In 1992, the concept of xenotransplantation and cloning techniques were introduced by Starzl.
- In 1999, approximately 5000 procedures were carried out, in contrast to 100 which had been performed a decade earlier.
- Recently, the introduction of newer immunosuppressive agents such as IL-2 receptor blockers and tacrolimus, have drastically increased patient survival rates to 1 and 5-year rates of approximately 85 and 70 percent respectively.[2]
- Liver transplantation is now performed at over one hundred centers in the USA, as well as numerous centers in Europe and elsewhere. One year patient survival is 85-90%, and outcomes continue to improve, although liver transplantation remains a formidable procedure with frequent complications.
- Unfortunately, the supply of liver allografts from non-living donors is far short of the number of potential recipients, a reality that has spurred the development of living donor liver transplantation.
Indications
- Liver transplantation is applicable to any acute or chronic condition resulting in irreversible liver dysfunction, provided that the recipient does not have other conditions that will preclude a successful transplant.
- Most liver transplants are performed for chronic liver diseases that lead to irreversible scarring of the liver, or cirrhosis.
- The most common indications for liver transplantation in the United States are:
- Hepatitis C virus
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Idiopathic/autoimmune liver disease
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Hepatitis B virus
- Metabolic liver disease (eg, inborn errors of metabolism)
- Cancer
- Biliary atresia
- Acute liver failure :
- Severe acute liver injury with impaired synthetic function of the liver(INR ≥1.5) and encephalopathy in the absence of pre existing liver disease or cirrhosis.
- Common causes:
- Viral
- Drug-induced
- Acute liver failure has the highest priority for liver transplantation, and warrants immediate referral to transplantation centre
- In the absence of transplantation, patients may recover or die
- Cirrhosis:
- Only in cases of complications such as portal hypertension, or compromised hepatic function (marker for impaired survival)
- Signs of decompensated cirrhosis include:
- Transplantation evaluation is commenced in patients with MELD score >10:
- This gives the patient time for pretransplantation evaluation
- Patient has ample time for education, before the development of symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy that may impair cognition
- Patients with cirrhosis are candidates for liver transplantation in the following scenarios:
- Biologic Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is ≥15
- Cases of Child B cirrhosis with portal hypertension but a low MELD score
- MELD exception points are given to patients with pathologies that may impair survival without impacting the MELD score such as:
- Cancer: HCC, Hilar cholangiocarcinoma
- Complications of cirrhosis:
- Vascular pathologies:
- Cystic fibrosis:
- Other conditions that may also be indications for transplantation that do not qualify for MELD or MELD exception points include:
- Intractable pruritus in case of primary biliary cirrhosis
- Refractory variceal hemorrhage
- Refractory ascites
- Refractory hepatic encephalopathy
- Portal hypertensive gastropathy leading to chronic blood loss
- Recurrent cholangitis in patients with PSC
- HCC: a single lesion ≤5 cm or up to three separate lesions all <3 cm, no evidence of gross vascular invasion, and no regional nodal or distant metastasis.
- Neuroendocrine tumors that have metastasized to the liver
- HCC (including fibrolamellar HCC)
- Large hepatic adenomas
- Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
- Metabolic disorders:
Contraindications
Absolute contraindications: [3]
- Metastasis outside the liver, past the curative stage
- Hepatocellular carcinoma with metastasis (Stage 1V)
- Acute Liver Failure with persistently elevated intracranial pressure ICP >50mmHg( due to hepatic encephalopathy)
- Hemangiosarcoma
- Hilar cholangiocarcinoma with liver involvement
- Sepsis
- Active alcohol or drug abuse
- Anatomic anomalies that may be a deterrent to transplantation
- Poor adherence to medical treatment
- Absence of social support
Relative contraindications:[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
- Infection with HIV (AIDS)
- Age >65 years
- Any serious pathologies of the lung or heart that cannot be corrected
- BMI ≥40
- Alcoholic liver disease:Only performed if abstinent for ≥ 6 months
- Presence of social support
- Participation in an alcohol abstinence and rehabilitation program
Pretransplant evaluation
Techniques
- Before transplantation liver support therapy might be indicated (bridging-to-transplantation).
- Artificial liver support like liver dialysis or bioartificial liver support concepts are currently under preclinical and clinical evaluation.
- Virtually all liver transplants are done in an orthotopic fashion, that is the native liver is removed and the new liver is placed in the same anatomic location.
- The transplant operation can be conceptualized as consisting of the hepatectomy (liver removal) phase, the anhepatic (no liver) phase, and the postimplantation phase.
- The operation is done through a large incision in the upper abdomen.
- The hepatectomy involves division of all ligamentous attachments to the liver, as well as the common bile duct, hepatic artery, and portal vein.
- Usually, the retrohepatic portion of the inferior vena cava is removed along with the liver, although an alternative technique preserves the recipient's vena cava ("piggyback" technique).
- The donor's blood in the liver will be replaced by an ice-cold organ storage solution, such as UW (Viaspan) or HTK until the allograft liver is implanted.
- Implantation involves anastomoses (connections) of the inferior vena cava, portal vein, and hepatic artery.
- After blood flow is restored to the new liver, the biliary (bile duct) anastomosis is constructed, either to the recipient's own bile duct or to the small intestine.
- The surgery usually takes between five and six hours, but may be longer or shorter due to the difficulty of the operation and the experience of the surgeon.
- The large majority of liver transplants use the entire liver from a non-living donor for the transplant, particularly for adult recipients.
- A major advance in paediatric liver transplantation was the development of reduced size liver transplantation, in which a portion of an adult liver is used for an infant or small child.
- Further developments in this area included split liver transplantation, in which one liver is used for transplants for two recipients, and living donor liver transplantation, in which a portion of healthy person's liver is removed and used as the allograft.
- Living donor liver transplantation for pediatric recipients involves removal of approximately 20% of the liver (Couinaud segments 2 and 3).
Immunosuppressive management
- Postimplant immunosuppression ensures survival of the patient and allograft.
- Immunosuppressive agents used in patients receiving a liver transplant include the following:
- Cyclosporine
- Everolimus
- Mycophenolate
- Corticosteroids
- Azathioprine
- Tacrolimus
- Sirolimus
- Agents used for induction include:
- High-dose corticosteroids
- Antithymocyte globulin
- Monoclonal antibody
- Azathioprine
- Cyclosporine/Tacrolimus (calcineurin inhibitors)
- Antiproliferative agents
- Agents for long-term immunosuppression:
- Cyclosporine or Mycophenolate Mofetil
- Tacrolimus
- Azathioprine
- Prednisone
- Liver transplantation is unique in that the risk of chronic rejection also decreases over time,although recipients need to take immunosuppresive medication for the rest of their lives.
- It is theorized that the liver may play a yet-unknown role in the maturation of certain cells pertaining to the immune system.
- There is at least one study by Dr. Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh which consisted of bone marrow biopsies taken from such patients which demonstrate genotypic chimerism in the bone marrow of liver transplant recipients.
Results
- Prognosis is quite good. 1-year survival (in Finland) is 83%, 5-year survival is 76% and 10-year survival is 66%. Majority of deaths happen during the first three months after transplantation.
Living donor transplantation
- Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has emerged in recent decades as a critical surgical option for patients with end stage liver disease, such as cirrhosis and/or hepatocellular carcinoma often attributable to one or more of the following: long-term alcohol abuse, long-term untreated Hepatitis C infection, long-term untreated Hepatitis B infection.
- The concept of LDLT is based on (1) the remarkable regenerative capacities of the human liver and (2) the widespread shortage of cadaveric livers for patients awaiting transplant. In LDLT, a piece of healthy liver is surgically removed from a living person and transplanted into a recipient, immediately after the recipient’s diseased liver has been entirely removed.
- Historically, LDLT began as a means for parents of children with severe liver disease to donate a portion of their healthy liver to replace their child's entire damaged liver.
- The first report of successful LDLT was by Dr. Silvano Raia at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Medical School in 1986.
- Surgeons eventually realized that adult-to-adult LDLT was also possible, and now the practice is common in a few reputable medical institutes.
- It is considered more technically demanding than even standard, cadaveric donor liver transplantation, and also poses the ethical problems underlying the indication of a major surgical operation (hepatectomy) on a healthy human being.
Complications of Liver Transplantation
- Complications that may develop in transplant recipients include the following:
- Acute rejection of the graft
- Adverse effects of immunosuppressive therapy
- Biliary stricture
- Biliary leak
- Vascular thrombosis
- Sepsis
- Malignancy
- To monitor the patient for complications, the following investigations are used:
Laboratory investigations
- The following laboratory investigations help in providing evidence of rejection, and also help in the assessment of drugs( Azathioprine, Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus) along with their effect on bone marrow and renal function:
- CBC
- Electrolyte panel
- Liver function tests
- Kidney function tests (KFTs)
- Drug levels in case of altered Kidney Function Tests, or suspected rejection:
- Cyclosporine levels
- Tacrolimus levels
- In case of suspected infection:
- Blood culture
- Urine culture
- Pharyngeal culture
- Sputum culture
Imaging studies
- Chest radiography:
- Abdominal ultrasonography
- Computed tomography scan
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
External Links
- American Liver Foundation: Comprehensive information about Hepatitis C, Liver Transplant and other liver diseases, including links to chapters for finding local resources
- Management of HBV Infection in Liver Transplantation Patients
- Management of HCV Infection and Liver Transplantation
- Antiviral therapy of HCV in the cirrhotic and transplant candidate
- Living Donors Online
- Liver Donor
- History of pediatric liver transplantation
- ABC Salutaris: Living Donor Liver Transplant
- Organ Donation Awareness and former potential donor blog
- All You Need to Know about Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
References
- ↑ STARZL T, MARCHIORO T, VONKAULLA K, HERMANN G, BRITTAIN R, WADDELL W. "HOMOTRANSPLANTATION OF THE LIVER IN HUMANS". Surg Gynecol Obstet. 117: 659–76. PMID 14100514.
- ↑ Kanwal F, Dulai GS, Spiegel BM, Yee HF, Gralnek IM (2005). "A comparison of liver transplantation outcomes in the pre- vs. post-MELD eras". Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. 21 (2): 169–77. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2005.02321.x. PMID 15679767.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Martin P, DiMartini A, Feng S, Brown R, Fallon M (2014). "Evaluation for liver transplantation in adults: 2013 practice guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American Society of Transplantation". Hepatology. 59 (3): 1144–65. PMID 24716201.
- ↑ Mathurin P, Moreno C, Samuel D, Dumortier J, Salleron J, Durand F, Castel H, Duhamel A, Pageaux GP, Leroy V, Dharancy S, Louvet A, Boleslawski E, Lucidi V, Gustot T, Francoz C, Letoublon C, Castaing D, Belghiti J, Donckier V, Pruvot FR, Duclos-Vallée JC (2011). "Early liver transplantation for severe alcoholic hepatitis". N. Engl. J. Med. 365 (19): 1790–800. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1105703. PMID 22070476.
- ↑ Cooper C, Kanters S, Klein M, Chaudhury P, Marotta P, Wong P, Kneteman N, Mills EJ (2011). "Liver transplant outcomes in HIV-infected patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis with synthetic cohort". AIDS. 25 (6): 777–86. doi:10.1097/QAD.0b013e328344febb. PMID 21412058.
- ↑ Mindikoglu AL, Regev A, Magder LS (2008). "Impact of human immunodeficiency virus on survival after liver transplantation: analysis of United Network for Organ Sharing database". Transplantation. 85 (3): 359–68. doi:10.1097/TP.0b013e3181605fda. PMID 18301332.
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