The need for a consensus agreement on indications of liver transplantation
β Scribed by Henri Bismuth
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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A one-day consensus meeting was convened at the Clinical Research Facility in Birmingham on 19 November 2004. The group sought to include representatives from the eight UK and Eire liver transplant units and in the event received 28 delegates from seven units. The purpose of the group was to look a
Question 1. How can medical management be optimized for patients transplanted for viral hepatitis? Question 2. When is alcoholic cirrhosis an indication for liver transplantation (LT)? Question 3. Which cancers of the liver can be treated with LT? Question 4. What is the role of the living donor in
Because of organ shortage and a constant imbalance between available organs and candidates for liver transplantation, expanded criteria donors are needed. Experience shows that there are wide variations in the definitions, selection criteria, and use of expanded criteria donors according to differen