Adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has become a life-saving procedure due to the limited availability of deceased donor organs in many parts of the world. It continues to be a technically challenging procedure and involves inherently complex ethical issues. Donor safety remains the ...
Safety and necessity of including the middle hepatic vein in the right lobe graft in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation. Safety and ne- cessity of including the middle hepatic vein in the right lobe graft in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplanta- tion. Ann Surg ... ST...
Waitlist time was significantly shorter for patients in the live donor group compared with the deceased donor group (4.8 vs. 6.2 months;P= .02). More patients from the deceased donor group dropped out while on the waitlist (27.5% vs. 14.6%;...
OBJECTIVES: The ongoing development of live donor kidney transplant has generated many ethical dilemmas. It is important to be aware of the attitudes of transplant professionals involved in this practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An anonymous and confidential questionnaire was sent to 236 members of the...
iver Transplants]]>A long-awaited review of live-donor liver transplants at theUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical...Andrew ConteLuis Fabregas
Live Donor Kidney Transplant (LDKT): the role of Mini-Incisional Open Donor Nephrectomy (MIODN)doi:10.1016/S1569-9056(02)80041-0Ignacio Castillón-VelaRemigio Vela-NavarreteJose Rodriguez-MiñonJavier CalahorraJavier CabreraElsevier B.V.European Urology Supplements...
survival of live donor liver adult transplant recipients—among the highest in the nation 6+ years experience—one of the longest-running kidney transplant programs in the world One of the first hospitals in the United States to establish a pediatric transplant program ...
F ailure to propose a renal transplant from a live donor when there is an opportunity to do so is bad practice. In other words, offering this therapeutic option to a patient with advanced renal disease is a good practice which all nephrologists should follow. Are we really doing the right...
The first transplant was completed 15 September 2012, and the ninth and final in the spring of 2013The tenth woman involved in the project had to be denied at an early stage for medical reasons. Five of the donors are mothers of the receivers; the remaining four a close relative. ...
Neighborhood poverty has been associated with worse outcomes after live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), and prior work suggests that women with kidney disease may be more susceptible to the negative influence of poverty than men. As such, our goal was to examine whether poverty differentially ...