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Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has evolved over the last 20 years as an alternative to deceased donor transplant to overcome the shortage of organs. Living organ donation is the only procedure where the person undergoes a surgery for no underlying medical condition with no potential for ...
*Conclusions:Factor V Leiden heterozygosity should not preclude patients from candidacy for living liver donation, especially considering the current organ shortage. Every center has some degree of hematologic screening in place, but it is unclear whether donors with heterozygous hyperc...
A new study shows that outcomes with liver transplants from live donors are better than outcomes with transplants from deceased donors, leading to calls for increasing the availability of live donation. "Transplant programs worldwide should be encouraged to expand their live donor programs to manage...
Live liver donation is a successful treatment for patients with end stage liver disease. Most adults are provided with a right lobe graft to ensure a generous recipient liver volume. Some centers are re-exploring the use of smaller left lobe grafts to potentially reduce donor risk. However, the...
In a related editorial, Dr. Daniela Ladner, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL agrees, "Living liver donation is arguably the most invasive operation we as surgeons perform in willing patients with no demonstrable medical benefit, allow...
The need for routine liver biopsy in donor evaluation is arguable but more and more centers opt for a policy of liberal liver biopsy. Donation of the middle hepatic vein (MHV) in the right liver graft was considered unsafe but now data indicate that the outcome of donors with or without ...
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Two of the respondents had previously encountered this Situation, whereas four had experienced an intraoperative recipient death before procurement of a live donor graft. On the basis of the responses, we offer the following recommendations for handling orphan liver grafts: (1) obtain predonation ...
OBJECTIVES: To better understand the impact that a parental live liver donation has on the everyday life of the donor. METHOD: Thirteen living parental donors from 2 West Coast transplant centers participated. Data included semistructured interviews, observations, and field notes about the donors ...