Going for liver eval March 10th

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I am going for a liver eval downtown Baylor Dallas the week of march 10th. Can someone tell me what I am going to expect? Is it full days of test? That's a lot of tests.... I know I will have blood work, MRI and stuff like that, but what else. The list they gave me doesn't seem like it would take that long. Any procedures that I will be drained after it? arman_shirin@...

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The only thing that I can say about all the testing. When I go in for

my quarterly test it takes time to evatuate both the MRI and blood. I

generaly get schedused for the testsearly in the morning and am to see

the Doc's mid afternoon.

Except for the poke of the needle there is no pain.

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I had my eval at Baylor in Fort Worth this past summer. The first

day they had a meeting for all liver transplant eval pt and their

caretakers lots of paperwork and many vials of blood drawn. At that

meeting they will give you the agenda for your test for the week.

The test did not take all day. Most people had a couple of things

done everyday Mon-Thurs and Friday was reserved for additional test

if it needed, like they wanted a nother view of a spot in my liver so

I had a CT scan early on Friday.

Other than blood work, the MRI,and and ultrasound. a 24 hr urine

test. I had an exam with a cardiologist, hep doc, transplant surgeon

and nutritionist and a social worker. Also attended a support group

meeting with liver transplant pts. Some pts meet with a psych doc

too. Have your support person plan on attending everything too.

We were done by 4pm or earlier everyday.

Good Luck,

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> I am going for a liver eval downtown Baylor Dallas the week of

march 10th. Can someone tell me what I am going to expect? Is it

full days of test? That's a lot of tests.... I know I will have

blood work, MRI and stuff like that, but what else. The list they

gave me doesn't seem like it would take that long. Any procedures

that I will be drained after it?

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Opps, sorry I did not address your question about discomfort. I was

more emotionally drained than physically drainged during my eval. I

had already had my liver biopsy done locally, this was the main test

that has caused me discomfort for almost a week. Make sure you take

result of any testing your local doc has done. Baylor wanted the

actual slides of my liver biopsy tissue so their docs could look at

it.

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> > I am going for a liver eval downtown Baylor Dallas the week of

> march 10th. Can someone tell me what I am going to expect? Is it

> full days of test? That's a lot of tests.... I know I will have

> blood work, MRI and stuff like that, but what else. The list they

> gave me doesn't seem like it would take that long. Any procedures

> that I will be drained after it?

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