Following discharge your progress will be monitored in the Liver Transplant Clinic on 9 East.
You will probably need to attend two to three times the first week following discharge from hospital, then once or twice a week for another week or two, and then less frequently as time progresses. After one year from transplantation most patients will only be required to come for clinic visits every 3 months. However, lifelong follow-up is necessary.
Preparing for your outpatient visits:
1. Check your medicine supply to see whether you have enough medication until your next visit. If not, remember to get a new prescription while at the clinic.
2. Do not take your morning dose of Cyclosporin/Tacrolimus (Neoral) until after your blood has been taken.
3. Bring your medication card, so that it can be updated.
4. If necessary, write down any questions you have so that you remember to ask them while at the clinic.
Post-op surgical appointment
On discharge, you will be given an appointment card to visit the surgeons in their Rooms at the Royal Prince Alfred Medical Centre within 2-4 weeks of discharge. On the same day you will need to have a Doppler Ultrasound of your liver performed on Level 2 of the Missenden Medical Centre, 54-60 Briggs Street, Camperdown (Tel. No. 9550-4733). This appointment will also be made prior to discharge.