Steatosis in case of live liver donors is on the rise and around 20- 40 % of prospective liver donors are estimated to have hepatic steatosis. Significant steatosis has been shown to be associated with inferior donor outcomes after liver transplant. Dietary and lifestyle modification has been shown to reduce steatosis and may help improve the donor outcomes after liver transplant. Donors will be randomized between two groups; one will be put under donor lifestyle optimization protocol and the other shall follow normal diet and lifestyle. Donors under optimization protocol would undergo diet modification in the form of healthy, low fat, high protein diet along with exercise for 2 weeks prior to the expected date of surgery. Investigations including liver volumetric assessment, LFT's , lipid profile , Fibroscan shall be done prior to initiation of the diet and then following completion of the 2 weeks of lifestyle modification before surgery. The intraoperative parameters including intraoperative blood loss shall be assessed and a liver biopsy will be taken intraoperatively to assess for steatosis and liver regeneration markers including CK7 and Ki 67 will be assessed. Following surgery, the liver regeneration in donor shall be assessed by doing a liver volumetry by Computed Tomography (CT) at POD7. Post surgery, the donor shall undergo daily LFT's, PT-INR and the time to its normalization and serum bilirubin shall be assessed. Markers of liver regeneration shall also be assessed initially a day before surgery and then at POD 1, 3 and 7.
Age range
18 Years – 55 Years
Sex
ALL
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To study difference in Liver regeneration in Live Liver Donors on basis of: Post operative day of normalization of serum bilirubin and PT-INR between both the groups.
Timeframe: post operative day 1 - day 14
Percentage growth of liver(on basis of CT Volumetry)
Timeframe: post operative day 7 and post operative day 14