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How long is liver surgery recovery?

I am a 46 year old female. I want to know how long is liver surgery recovery?

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Normally, 6-12 weeks.
Depends on how sick the patient was at time of transplant and on how they respond to the transplant. The recovery can be as brief as 4-5 days in the straightforward cases and as long as months for high MELD patients with complicated recoveries.

Josue Alvarez-Casas, MD