To be eligible for a kidney transplant, a person must have chronic irreversible kidney disease that has not been recovered from other medical or surgical treatments. The patient is either on dialysis or may require dialysis in the near future.
On an ultrasound image, steatotic livers appear brighter, whereas the normal appearance is darker. At the same time, cirrhotic livers can be seen as skinny and lumpy on the ultrasound image.
Rejection occurs when your immune system attacks the new liver. It happens in 25 to 50% of transplant patients within six months of surgery. After six months, the rejection rate is 5% or less.