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...
It has contributed to the development of liver transplantation, being the first in the world to carry out an adult to adult live donor liver transplant in 1993. WikiMatrix Although living donors have always been critical for transplantation, the donations from living donors has dramatically increas...
LIVING VERSUS DECEASED DONOR TRANSPLANTS: BENEFITS AND RISKS Over the past few years, the benefits of living donor transplantation—compared with all forms of deceased donor transplantation—have been well recognized (Box 1). Use of living donors is associated with better graft and patient survival...
Related to Living Donor:Kidney donation do·nor (dō′nər) n. 1.One that contributes something, such as money, to a cause or fund. 2.MedicineAn individual from whom blood, tissue, or an organ is taken for transfusion, implantation, or 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 ...
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...
Living donor LT (LDLT) has developed as an alternative to deceased donor LT (DDLT) in order to overcome the critical shortage of deceased organ donations, particularly in Asia. LDLT offers several advantages over DDLT. The major advantage of LDLT is the reduction in waiting time mortality. ...
In April 2006, the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit in Edinburgh became the first NHS transplant unit in the UK to offer adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). This procedure allows a healthy individual to donate part of their liver to someone with end-stage liver disease. Wit...
Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation at the Asan Medical Center. Between February 1997 and December 2003, 580 adult-to-adult living donor liver transplants (A-A LDLTs) were performed at the Asan Medical Center for patien... Deok-Bog,Moon,Sung-Gyu,... - 《Yonsei Medical Journa...