[PDF][PDF] Left hepatectomy versus right hepatectomy for living donor liver transplantation: shifting the risk from the donor to the recipient

GR Roll, JR Parekh, WF Parker, M Siegler… - Liver …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), originally used in children with left lateral segment
grafts, has been expanded to adults who require larger grafts to support liver function. Most …

[PDF][PDF] Quality of life for donors after living donor liver transplantation: a review of the literature

ND Parikh, D Ladner, M Abecassis… - Liver Transplantation, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) decreases the shortage of liver grafts for patients in
need of a liver transplant, but it involves 2 patients: a recipient and a living donor. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Complications of living donor hepatic lobectomy—a comprehensive report

MM Abecassis, RA Fisher, KM Olthoff, CE Freise… - American Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
A wider application of living donor liver transplantation is limited by donor morbidity
concerns. An observational cohort of 760 living donors accepted for surgery and enrolled in …

[PDF][PDF] Incidence of death and potentially life‐threatening near‐miss events in living donor hepatic lobectomy: a world‐wide survey

YL Cheah, MA Simpson, JJ Pomposelli… - Liver …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The incidence of morbidity and mortality after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is not
well understood because reporting is not standardized and relies on single‐center reports …

Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

CL Berg, BW Gillespie, RM Merion, RS Brown Jr… - Gastroenterology, 2007 - Elsevier
Background & Aims: More than 2000 adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantations (LDLT)
have been performed in the United States, yet the potential benefit to liver transplant …

Complications of right lobe living donor liver transplantation

JW Marsh, E Gray, R Ness, TE Starzl - Journal of hepatology, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Right lobar living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been
controversial because of donor deaths, and because of widely variable reports of recipient …

Living donor liver transplantation: eliminating the wait for death in end-stage liver disease?

RA Fisher - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2017 - nature.com
Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (A2ALDLT), outside of Asia, remains an
important yet underutilized gift of life. For patients with end-stage liver disease, A2ALDLT is …

A worldwide survey of live liver donor selection policies at 24 centers with a combined experience of 19 009 adult living donor liver transplants

AS Soin, RJ Chaudhary, H Pahari, EA Pomfret - Transplantation, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background Although surgical technique in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has
evolved with a focus on donor safety and recipient challenges, the donor selection criteria …

[HTML][HTML] Adult living liver donors have excellent long-term medical outcomes: the University of Toronto liver transplant experience

L Adcock, C Macleod, D Dubay, PD Greig… - American journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Right lobe living donor liver transplantation is an effective treatment for selected individuals
with end-stage liver disease. Although 1 year donor morbidity and mortality have been …

Current status of living donor liver transplantation in the United States

S Abu-Gazala, KM Olthoff - Annual review of medicine, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was introduced in response to the
shortage of deceased donor liver grafts. The number of adult living donor transplants is …