The purpose of donor evaluation for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is to discover medical conditions that could increase the donor postoperative risk of complications and to determine whether the donor can yield a suitable graft for the recipient. We report the outcomes of
Implications for management of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in adult-to-adult live donor liver transplantation
โ Scribed by Albert C Y Chan; Chung Mau Lo; Kelvin Kwok Chai Ng; See Ching Chan; Sheung Tat Fan
- Book ID
- 111237601
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0106-9543
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For acute liver failure (ALF), living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) may reduce waiting time and provide better timing compared to deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT). However, there are concerns that a partial graft would result in reduced survival of critically ill LDLT recipients and
We read with interest the article by Campsen et al. 1 describing the outcomes of adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for acute liver failure (ALF) in the United States. They described 2 concerns in applying LDLT for ALF: appropriate donor evaluation during the rapid evolution of