Liver Transplant Criteria

Refer a Patient

• Acute liver failure
• Liver cancer
• Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
• Hepatology including abnormal liver enzymes, benign and/or malignant liver lesion and viral/autoimmune/metabolic disease
• Cirrhosis with any decompensating event including ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, variceal bleeding, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and jaundice.

Early Referral Liver Transplant Conditions

• Abnormal liver function tests
• Ascites
• Liver mass
• Portal hypertension
• Encephalopathy
• Jaundice

Relative Contraindications to Liver Transplant

• Inability to abstain from drugs/alcohol
• Inability to cooperate or comply with medical therapy
• Absence of a consistent or reliable social support system 

Liver Transplant Related Services

• Adult liver transplant
• Hepatobiliary (liver/pancreas) surgery
• Hepatic medicine clinic
• Liver cancer clinic
• Hepatitis C clinic
• Transplant-specific intensive care unit 

Liver Transplant Recipient Review Committee

Once the evaluation phase is completed, the patient is presented at the liver transplant recipient review committee, which includes a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team.

• Psychiatrist
• Social workers
• Transplant coordinators
• Nutritionists
• Pharmacists
• Physician assistants
• Nurse practitioners
• Transplant surgeons
• Hepatologist
• Cardiologists
• Advanced diagnostic and therapeutic gastroenterologist
• Hospitalists
• Dedicated transplant intensive care team