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Progress in immunosuppression, surgical techniques, and perioperative care has promoted orthotopic liver transplantation from an experimental procedure to an accepted clinical treatment. Orthotopic liver transplantation, in turn, has changed the treatment of terminal liver disease from care that is largely treatment of symptoms and support to cure, but at the price of major surgery and life-long immunosuppression. This article reviews the current status of liver transplantation as practiced at the University of Pittsburgh.
免疫抑制、手术技术和围手术期护理方面的进展,已将原位肝移植从一种实验性手术推进为一种被认可的临床治疗方法。反过来,原位肝移植也改变了终末期肝病的治疗方式,从主要是对症治疗和支持治疗转变为可治愈,但代价是大手术和终身免疫抑制。本文回顾了匹兹堡大学目前开展肝移植的现状。