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Approximately 60-70% of patients develop rejection at some time after a liver transplant. In the past decade, major improvements have occurred in the ability to control rejection. It is uncommon for patients to lose the new liver to rejection, provided they take their antirejection medications as prescribed.

Some of the signs of rejection are:

After liver recipients are discharged from the hospital, they have the responsibility for monitoring their health and avoiding rejection. The following guidelines should become a natural way of life for them:

Recipients receive several different medications to prevent them from developing infections. Opportunistic infections would not usually be harmful to most people, but can be to transplant recipients. Such infections include the following: