Despite rapid adoption of LDLT by many centers, many controversies on donor selection, indications, techniques, and ethics exist. With the recent known 11 donor deaths around the world, transplant surgeons are even more cautious than the past in the evaluation and selection of donors. The need ...
ULAN BATOR, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Surgeons at the National Cancer Center of Mongolia successfully performed the nation's first liver transplant from a living donor on Sunday. A team of 42 surgeons transplanted a section of liver from a 20-year old man into his 42-year old uncle. The surg...
Altruism in Relation to Live Donor Liver Transplants for Liver Cancer Altruism in regard to liver transplantation is the desire to donate part of the liver and thus increase the life and welfare of the individual who needs the organ, without any expectation of reward or gain by the donor. It...
Liver transplant is a major surgery, for both the donor and the recipient. You’ll both need to stay in the hospital afterward. Right after surgery, you’ll both go to the intensive care unit (ICU) for monitoring. The donor can usually go home in 4-7 days. Recipients typically stay 1...
Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who had a potential live donor at listing for liver transplantation had a significantly lower risk for mortality compared with those who waited for a deceased donor graft, according to recently published data.Accord
摘要: This patient with very few options for transplantation was able to receive a live donor liver transplant from a donor who had a small excised gastric cancer, without recurrence to date, suggesting that this may be considered when there are no other options.关键词:...
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Adult liver transplants from a living donor are a valid and effective alternative as a treatment in terminal liver disease. However, in the context of a donation from a brain dead donor, as in western countries (Spain), it is very high, and there are still controversial aspects that should...
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) prompts liver transplantation (LT) due to cholestasis, cirrhosis, and liver failure. Despite lower MELD scores, recent studies highlight higher PBC waitlist mortality, intensifying the need for alternative transplantation strategies. Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) ...
Additionally, to the best of our knowledge, few studies have looked specifically at post-transplant patients and graft survival in patients with PSC. There are some limitations to our study. First, there are significant differences in the baseline characteristics between the live-donor and deceased-...