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Long-Term Discharge
Liver Transplantation

You will be responsible for your new liver. This will mean lifetime management that includes changes in diet and lifestyle, medical follow-up and medications. You will need to make choices in the best interests of your new liver and your overall health.

Before you go home from the hospital, you and your family will begin to receive instructions on your care at home. By the time you are discharged, you and your family will understand how to perform dressing changes, take medications and help prevent infections. Arrangements may also be made for a nurse to visit you at home to answer any questions that may come up, take vital signs and help ease the transition form hospital to home.

For the first three weeks you will be seen twice a week in the liver transplant clinic. During each visit, you will be seen by your surgeon, the liver transplant coordinator and other members of the team. Blood samples will be taken for liver function tests and immunosuppressive levels. The follow-up visit schedule depends on your recovery, so, if needed, you may be coming to see us more frequently.

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