Living donor liver transplants (LDLTs) have provided many patients with a lifesaving option. Yet this option remains a significant undertaking, with potentially serious consequences for both the donor and the recipient. The donor is obviously the individual with the most to lose. The exact risks...
Liver transplantLiving donorDonor evaluationRight hepatectomyLeft hepatectomyLeft lateral hepatectomyDonor morbidityDonor mortalityBiliary complicationsNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1016/S0168-8278(03)00009-6Dieter C BroeringMartina Sterneck...
Living donor liver transplantation in adult patients: our experience. Transplant Proc. 2005;37(6):2595–6. PMID: 16182755.Dazzi A, Lauro A, Di Benedetto F, Masetti M, Cautero N, De Ruvo N, et al. Living donor liver transplantation in adult patients: our experience. Transplant Proc 2005...
The left lobe, being the smaller of the 2 lobes, was often inadequate for transplantation into an adult. In 1994, surgeons were able to successfully transplant the right hepatic lobe from a living donor, thus providing the recipient with sufficient liver volume.[2] The advantages of LDLT are...
Living donor and auxiliary liver transplantation are likely to improve survival rates further and reduce the number of patients requiring long-term post-transplant immunosuppression.doi:10.1002/lt.25610Amar GuptaBaylor Simmons Transplant InstituteBaylor University Medical Center Dallas TXSumeet K. Asrani...
There are limited data on the efficacy of living donor liver transplantation in the setting of HCC. Based on a limited cohort of patients undergoing transplantation for HCC at Northwestern University Medical Center, a higher recurrence rate, stage for stage, was found in recipients whose transplant...
Living-donor recipients have shorter hospital stays after surgery than deceased-donor recipients. You’re also less likely to need ablood transfusionordialysis. Con: Recovery still takes time. Liver transplant is a major surgery, for both the donor and the recipient. You’ll both need to stay ...
BACKGROUND:In liver transplantation (LT), preoperative desensitization therapy is considered necessary in patients positive for donor-specific anti-human leukocyte antigen antibodies (DSAs). However, the relationship between DSA intensity and the necessa
Liver transplantLiving donorDonor evaluationRight hepatectomyLeft hepatectomyLeft lateral hepatectomyDonor morbidityDonor mortalityBiliary complicationsLiver transplantations using a part of the liver from a living donor are already being performed around the world. The main arguments for performing such ...
To reduce morbidity and the invasiveness of living donor nephrectomy, several renal transplant teams have developed the laparoscopic approach to this procedure.12, 13, 14 We, and others, have investigated laparoscopy for liver resections.15, 16, 17, 18, 19 Left lobectomy (also called left latera...