Dr. lankarani, the Minister of Health said that Iranian patients who recieved liver transplant now have a one-year and five-year survival rate of 82% and 90% that is comparable with international standards. He added only 10 percent of 200 liver transplants were done for patients with hepatitis C as the cause of liver failure that depicts a completely different picture from that of the western countries where hepatitis C is the main reason for which liver transplant is performed. The main problem we are dealing with in relation to liver transplantation in Iran is patient followup he reiterated.
Source: http://pezeshkan.ir/, December 29, 2007
My comment: There is no doubt that the rate of successful liver transplantation is increasing in the country. However, comparing with kidney transplantation, this rate seems to be very small. The first liver transplantation surgery in Iran back to more than 20 years ago but it was limited to Shiraz Namazi Hospital for quite a lot of years. Recently, the country has expanded the capacity for liver transplantation surgery in Tehran and maybe some other big cities but I guess Iran has not enough expert liver transplant surgeons and hepatologists in order to increase this capacity in short term.
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