Re: New Zealand/Australia Live Liver transplants

[Guest guest]

Hi Penny

If you are on line desperately trying to keep distracted before

your transplant. (If they are waiting for your liver to arrive, it

could be coming from New Zealand - then you may be a part NZr grin).

New Zealand has 4 million people with 20 live donor liver

transplants since 2002 and from what you can find out, Australia with

just under 21 million people, has had perhaps 1 live donor liver

transplant. It sounds strange as at the begining of liver transplants

Brisbane, Australia was the only place New Zealanders could go for a

transplant from 1985 before our Liver Transplant Unit was set up in

1997.

Look forward to getting your Caring Bridge site www.

Again best wishes

>

> Thanks for that . I have found the liver protocol on the

TSANZ site,

> and can probably recite most of it. I have several tumours, and the

size

> criteria is obviously very relevant to me. Because I get bogged

down in the

> size criteria, and also the exclusion criteria of " significant

> co-morbidities impacting on life expectancy " (I have cvid an immune

> deficiency, and as a consequence have had non-hogkins lymphoma), I

have

> never made it to the live donor section of the website! Bad me!

>

> It really is over whelming sometimes.

>

> Take care,

>

> Penny T

>