How will patients be selected for transplantation in the future?

✍ Scribed by Michael R. Lucey

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1527-6465
• DOI: 10.1002/lt.20256

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Points 1. The model for end-stage liver disease has become a selection tool for recipients for liver transplantation. 2. The present selection / allocation system does not recognize distinctions in "donor organ quality." 3. Many studies have shown that donor factors such as age, gender, fat content, and heart beating versus nonheart beating status influence outcome of the liver transplantation. 4. Efforts to increase organ donation are likely to provide more "expanded-criteria donors." 5. Future selection practices may attempt to match specific recipients to specific donors. (Liver Transpl 2004;10: