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Liver transplantation from non–heart-beating donors: Current status and future prospects

✍ Scribed by Srikanth Reddy; Miguel Zilvetti; Jens Brockmann; Andrew McLaren; Peter Friend

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
112 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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✦ Synopsis

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for many patients with acute and chronic liver failure, but its application is limited by a shortage of donor organs. Donor organ shortage is the principal cause of increasing waiting lists, and a number of patients die while awaiting transplantation. Non-heart-beating donor (NHBD) livers are a potential means of expanding the donor pool. This is not a new concept. Prior to the recognition of brainstem death, organs were retrieved from deceased donors only after cardiac arrest. Given the preservation techniques available at that time, this restricted the use of extrarenal organs for transplantation. In conclusion, after establishment of brain death criteria, deceased donor organs were almost exclusively from heart-beating donors (HBDs). To increase organ availability, there is now a resurgence of interest in NHBD liver transplantation. This review explores the basis for this and considers some of the published results.

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