This report describes the cumulative experience in living-donor liver transplantation in Asia on the basis of data from five major liver transplant centers.doi:10.1097/01.TP.0000046533.93621.C7Chen, Chao-LongFan, Sheung-TatLee, Sung-GyuMakuuchi, Masatoshi...
Twenty centers in Japan performed 308 living donor liver transplants (LDLT) in adults. 2. Right lobe grafts were used in the minority of cases (27.1%); most had left lobe grafts (72.9%). Survival was not influenced by the type of graft. 3. There were no donor deaths (0%); 9.3% ...
Whose Liver Is It Anyway? Two Centers Participating in One Living Donor TransplantationIn the United States, approximately 3000 patients are removed from the liver waiting list each year because they are unable to receive a liver transplant. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been shown ...
The bottom line was no real increase in donor organ availability for both pediatric and adult recipients. In addition, for the adults, a new phenomenon was discovered: the small for size graft syndrome, which prevented expansion of the procedure of hemiliver transplant between two adults [17]....
In a paired living liver donation, donors who find themselves poorly matched with a family member or friend needing an organ give the "gift of life" to a different recipient and their loved one receives a liver from a better matched donor. ...
Donor evaluation, donor risks, donor outcome, and donor quality of life in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation Right lobe living donor liver transplantation (LD-LTx) is currently performed at an increasing number of transplant centers. Donor selection, donor safety,... A Pascher,IM...
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been a welcome alternative to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT), increasing the availability of donor livers overall and improving survival in individual patients [1, 2]. In experienced centers, operative outcomes of LDLT are almost comparable to...
Since its inception, this procedure has been uniformly adopted by most pediatric transplant centers, with excellent results. Unfortunately, liver grafts obtained from this procedure did not provide sufficient hepatocyte mass for use in adult recipients. An adult donor procedure was, therefore, developed...
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...
To date, however, only a small number of liver transplant centers have performed laparoscopic donor hepatectomy because the procedure can be performed only by surgical teams with extensive expertise in performing both minimally invasive surgery on the liver and liver transplantation with partial and ...