What is the average waiting time for a liver transplant?

What is the average waiting time for a liver transplant?

The average waiting time for a liver transplant is 145 days for adults and 72 days for children. However, your waiting time may be a lot shorter if you are on a high-priority waiting list.

Where is the best place to have a liver transplant?

The most active living donor liver transplant programs

• University Health System Transplant Center San Antonio. San Antonio.
• USC Transplant Institute, Keck Medicine of USC. Los Angeles.
• New York-Presbyterian/ Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
• Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland.
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

What is the average hospital stay after a liver transplant?

Most patients are hospitalized for 7 to 10 days after liver transplant. Afterwards, they generally recuperate at home and typically return to work or school after about 3 months.

What percentage of liver transplants are successful?

Liver transplant survival rates In general, about 75% of people who undergo liver transplant live for at least five years. That means that for every 100 people who receive a liver transplant for any reason, about 75 will live for five years and 25 will die within five years.

How many people are currently waiting for a liver transplant?

Who is on the Transplant Waiting List? There are currently over 106,000 people on the national transplant waiting list.

How long are you in an ICU after a liver transplant?

When you wake up from surgery, you will be in an intensive care unit (ICU). Most people spend 1 to 2 days in ICU and then move to a hospital room outside the ICU. Expect a hospital stay of 2 to 3 weeks.

Can you be denied a liver transplant?

Patients may be denied consideration for OLT for reasons predating critical illness, such as ongoing alcohol abuse or new medical conditions that make the risk of the liver transplant procedure prohibitive.

Can you be taken off liver transplant list?

Once activated on the liver transplant wait list, most patients are removed for 1 of 3 reasons: transplanta- tion, death, or change in clinical status.