Unlike regular patients, liver transplant recipients are required to have lifelong follow-up after surgery. This is determined by the unique nature of the procedure. After transplantation, you will always face the risk of rejection, infection, and other potential complications, for which you need to take immunosuppressants and certain anti-infective drugs for the rest of your life. Early detection and treatment of post-transplant complications are crucial to prolonging your life and improving your quality of life.

This requires you to be consistent with regular outpatient follow-up visits. Through regular outpatient visits, doctors can timely detect early signs of complications, monitor changes in laboratory test results, and reassess the immunosuppressive regimen's suitability. Any problems can be addressed promptly. This way, many complications can be eliminated in the early stages, with the damage caused by complications minimized.

In the short term after surgery, major changes will occur in various aspects of your body as liver function improves. With improved liver function, appetite and nutritional status will also improve, resulting in weight gain. Changes in weight will require adjustments in the dosage of immunosuppressive drugs. As liver function improves, conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease will also see some improvement, necessitating adjustments to your treatment plan by your doctor. As the condition stabilizes over time post-transplant, medication dosages will need to be adjusted as well, which is quite complex and must be done by the transplant physician based on the patient's condition and blood drug concentrations. Therefore, after liver transplant surgery, patients must undergo regular, scheduled follow-up visits.