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Liver transplant prognosis and life expectancy depends on the success of the procedure and the patient's medical history and overall health. Learn more about rates of liver transplant success and failure, liver transplant rejection, and potential complications.
The average survival rate after liver transplant is 78% after five years and nearly 65% after 10 years. But your survival rate will depend on many factors, including your age, overall health status and the original liver disease that made a liver transplant necessary.
Your chances of a successful liver transplant and long-term survival depend on your particular situation. In general, about 75% of people who undergo liver transplant live for at least five years. That means that for every 100 people who receive a liver transplant for any reason, about 75 will live for five years and 25 will die within five years.
According to the most recent year computed UNOS/OPTN (2004) national average one-year graft survival at 83%, and patient survival at 87% for patients receiving a deceased donor liver and 92% for those transplanted with an organ from a living donor.
On average, most people who receive LT live for more than 10 years. Many may live for up to 20 years or more after the transplant. A study says 90% of people with transplant survive for at least 1 year, and 70% of people may live for at least 5 years after transplant.
Patients with liver failure often are considered for liver transplants, which can provide you with a functioning liver and a new lease on life—provided you can access an organ. (Unfortunately, about 17% of people on liver transplant lists die each year while waiting for organs.)
Liver transplant is a last-resort measure for chronic (long-term) liver diseases and severe acute (sudden onset) liver diseases. According to a study, people who have a liver transplant have an...
Though liver transplants carry a risk of significant complications, the procedure has a high success rate. The operation typically helps save or greatly extend the lives of people with severe liver...
According to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, overall patient survival is excellent, reaching 90% at 1 year following deceased donor liver transplantation and 77% at 5 years.
Learn what transplant recipients and living donors can expect: tests, screening, the procedures, risks, recovery, financial information and more. Mayo Clinic's liver transplant doctors and surgeons use proven innovations to successfully treat people with liver failure and other complications of liver conditions.