Assessment for transplantation

This information is from the King's College Hospital section on liver transplantstwork site. The assessment process will be similar at any of the transplant centres.

Patients are referred to King’s for transplantation from all over the country and abroad. The assessment for suitability for transplantation involves a brief admission to King’s and includes imaging, blood tests, lung function tests, cardiac assessment and clinical review. Once a week, patients are added to the waiting list after a multi-disciplinary meeting of surgeons, hepatologists, anaesthetists, intensive care physicians, specialist transplant nurses (transplant coordinator) and social workers.

All patients added to the list receive a comprehensive education session on the experience of liver transplantation and an information pack. Patients will meet all members of the team and will be closely linked to a transplant coordinator for the duration of their care with us. Once on the waiting list all patients attend a specialist consent clinic where a consultant surgeon explains the different processes and techniques of transplantation and acquires consent for the procedure.