Quality of life and the postoperative duration in living donor liver transplant surgery

Abstract

Introduction: In worldwide, a living donor transplant accounts for 20 percent of total organ transplant in year of 2015. It is required for evaluating long term quality of life and its’ change among donors operating on liver transplant. Materials and Methods: We used cross sectional study design to study some risk factors contributing to quality of life among living liver donors. The study had conducted between 2018 and 2019 year at National Cancer Center of Mongolia. The SF-36 health survey was used to assess quality of life of living liver donors. Results: The 55.6% (n=35) were men, and mean age of study participants was 31.0±7.1 years. Conclusion: There has decreasing trend of mental and physical health score during the first one year and after six years of liver transplant surgery.