In order to truly realize the potential of LDKT, transplant programs need to incorporate initiatives that highlight the value of living donation, reduce racial disparities, and eliminate financial barriers facing low- and middle-income donors. Centers also need to adopt strategies that increase ...
Transplant centers that accept donors in this category should document an informed consent process that details donor risks and ensures donor safety. Motives for donation should also be established, with care taken to avoid donors who intend to remedy a psychological disorder via donation. Benefits ...
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 ...
Further, ongoing ethical discussions are concerned with questions such as who should receive a living donor transplant. While some argue that stable patients with chronic liver disease, before hepatic decompensation, benefit the most from LDLT, others maintain that very ill patients are precisely the ...
Vastag B. Living-donor transplants reexamined: experts cite growing concerns about safety of donors. JAMA 2003;290:181-2.Vastag B. Living-donor ... B Vastag - 《Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 98发表: 2003年 Living-Donor Transplants Reexamined. Vastag B. Living-donor...
We retrospectively assessed the safety of the donor operation, based on parameters suchas blood loss, blood transfusion, operation time, duration of hospit... Masaru,Shoji,Nobuhiro,... - 《Transplant International》 被引量: 72发表: 2003年 Living-donor liver transplantation in the new decade: per...
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 ...
AIM: We describe the first living donor intestinal transplant (LDIT) in India and discuss the indications and problems of this complex procedure. METHODS: A 43-year-old male patient required massive bowel resection for gangrene due to thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery. He was maintained...
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...
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) differs from that of deceased donor liver transplantation primarily because LDLT liver grafts are not public resources.In Asian countries, where HCC is endemic, LDLT is the main currently available treatment option for HCC. High-volume LDLT centers throughout...