Medicine Advances

Impressive how it is that as the years have passed, advances in medicine have not only increased in speed, if not in quality also. Such is the case of the liver transplant, also known as liver transplantation, which is defined as the replacement of a previously diagnosed as sick liver by a healthy liver. The most popular in this procedure technique is known as transplant ortopico, where the liver of one who is sick, is replaced by the liver of the respective donor in the original position. This type of transplant is used when the patient has no solution and is diagnosed with a risk of dying, probably from hepatitis, where the liver is degenerates. Liver transplantation is, therefore, one of the more expensive procedures in medicine and can be considered for any case in which the patient presents a clear loss of vital functions of the liver. They are more than 100 liver transplants a year, which are carried out in Mexico and more than 50% are conducted in the State of Guadalajara, specifically at the hospital Civil de Guadalajara, where they are subject matter experts. A. Verastegui hold.