Auxiliary liver transplantation surgery is that patients with autologous retain all or part of the liver, in the same location or near the implanted liver donor (usually a part of the liver or the smaller size of possible liver). The advantage is not totally dependent on patients with liver, liver function once lost, can have time to wait again liver transplantation.

As long as reservations liver of patients with no adverse impact, in theory, auxiliary liver transplantation apply to any good end-stage liver disease.

Its specific indications:
1, congenital metabolic liver disease, except for patients with a single genetic defects, other liver function.
Second, patients with liver failure caused the disease can be complex in nature, such as acute liver failure, poisoning of liver failure, serious liver injury, so that once the restoration of liver function, immunosuppressive drugs to stop the implantation of the liver gradually shrinking and the disappearance of patients from a lifetime of the use of the side effects of transplantation immunity and high costs.
Auxiliary liver transplantation is the taboo of liver tumors, liver and biliary tract disease infection.

Auxiliary liver transplantation is the first to try to transplantation in the treatment of liver disease, however, because of the low rate of early success, after gradually being replaced by orthotopic liver transplantation. However, from the late 1980s, the auxiliary liver transplantation is back in the doctor's favor transplantation, a few cases has gradually increased, the success rate gradually approach the level of orthotopic liver transplantation.

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