The liver has countless vital functions in our body, and a liver that does not function is not compatible with life. In chronic liver failure, as in kidney failure, there are no methods such as dialysis that can keep the patient alive until the transplant is performed. Unfortunately, this patient group is doomed to death, which is the inevitable end, if liver transplantation is not performed.

Liver transplantation is a surgical treatment method applied for the treatment of liver failure and can be summarized as the removal of a patient's diseased liver and the replacement of it with a healthy liver. In liver transplantation, a healthy whole liver or a liver segment/lobe taken from a living or deceased donor (cadaver) whose blood type is compatible with the recipient is transplanted to the patient. Unlike kidney transplantation, cross-match tests and other immunological tests are usually not required between the donor and recipient. Liver transplantation is the only successful treatment method that can provide permanent cure for liver failure.

Liver transplantation should be performed in a fully equipped hospital by a team of experts in this field. Liver transplantation is not just about surgery. Starting from the patient preparation before transplantation and including the follow-up process after transplantation, it is very important for all departments of the hospital where the organ transplant center is located to be of high quality and to work together with a multidisciplinary approach for a successful liver transplant. The best transplant for patients who have living donor candidates is the transplant that is performed as soon as possible after the indication for liver transplantation is made, without waiting for the liver failure to progress too much. Because while the patient is waiting, he/she may encounter problems such as portal vein thrombosis and infection that will prevent or delay liver transplantation and may even lose his/her life due to complications such as esophageal variceal bleeding, peritonitis and hepatic coma. In addition, the success rate of liver transplantation in patients who apply for transplantation in the last stages of their disease is lower than in patients who apply earlier.