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A Patient's Guide to Liver Transplant Surgery - http://www.livertransplant.org/patientguide/index.html
Detailed before, during, and after surgery information, including the transplant team, medications, and organ donation. Transplant tour has surgery photos.

eMedicine Health: Liver Transplant Overview - http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/13891-1.asp
Consumer health resource center providing information on the risks and benefits of liver transplants.

European Liver Transplant Registry - http://www.eltr.org/
(ELTR) summarizes the results of about 40,000 liver transplantations in 35,000 patients from 120 centers of 20 countries.

Jackson Gastroenterology: Liver Transplant - http://www.gicare.com/pated/epdlv44.htm
Overview of reasons for transplant, evaluation, and transplant centers. Includes information about surgery, recovery, and organ donation.

Liver Transplant - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/liver-transplant/DG00037
Mayo Clinic article discusses the process from determining need through post-transplant treatment. Includes waiting for a donor organ and preparing for the surgery.

Liver Transplant - http://www.emedicinehealth.com/liver_transplant/article_em.htm
eMedicine article discusses types of transplant surgeries, how patient need is determined, and types of donors. Includes exams and tests, self-care at home, medications, and when to seek medical care.

Liver Transplant - http://uimc.discoveryhospital.com/main.php?id=882
From the University of Illinois Medical Center. Explains who is a candidate, how the procedure is performed, what happens after, and potential complications.

Liver Transplant - http://www.debakeydepartmentofsurgery.org/home/content.cfm?proc_name=liver+transplant&content_id=272
Provides basic information and answers to common questions. Includes patient success story. [Story requires free RealPlayer download.]

Liver Transplant Support Online - http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/nav/start.asp?webtag=livertransplant
Information, chats, and message boards for pre- and post-transplant patients. Includes news, medications and research, concerns, jokes, poems, and journals.

Liver Transplantation - http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/livertransplant/
Describes the transplant process, and provides a link to the most current list of free publications available from the National Institutes of Health.

Liver Transplantation - http://gastroresource.com/GITextbook/en/chapter14/14-15.htm
Gastroenterology textbook explains the history of this procedure, indications for and against transplant, pre-operative procedures, post-operative management, immunosuppression, and recent advances.

New Zealand Liver Transplant Recipients Website - http://www.livers.org.nz
Provides information, personal experiences and contact people for all recipients, care givers and interested people. Donors, fact sheets and The Liver are three sections.

The Tiger Fund - Helping Needy Organ Donor and Transplant Families - http://www.tigerfund.org
Information about transplantation, organ donation, the needs of liver patients, and programs to support patients.

What I Need to Know About Liver Transplantation - http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/livertransplant_ez/index.htm
Article from NDDIC that explains the reasons for transplant, what happens during and after surgery, rejection, and how to care for the new liver.

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