Background: Long-term health risks for adults who donate kidneys are unclear. Purpose: To
summarize evidence about mid-and long-term health risks associated with living kidney …

Due to the enduring organ shortage, living donor liver transplantation has been a valuable
treatment strategy for advanced liver disease patients for over 20 years. A variety of reviews …

Background In a statement from the second International Consensus Conference for
Laparoscopic Liver Resection, adult-to-adult laparoscopic donor surgery was the earliest …

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 …

Although single-center and cross-sectional studies have suggested a modest impact of liver
donation on donor psychological well-being, few studies have assessed these outcomes …

The first adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant (ALDLT) in the United States was reported
in 1998 1 as a response to the shortage of organ donors. Since then, ALDLT has been …

Living donor liver transplantation was first developed to mitigate the limited access to
deceased donor organs in Asia in the 1990s. This alternative liver transplantation method …

Background Prospective and longitudinal studies have examined liver donors' medical
outcomes beyond the first 1 to 2 years postdonation. There is no analogous longitudinal …

Thorough psychosocial screening of donor candidates is required in order to minimize
potential negative consequences and to strive for optimal safety within living donation …

Pretransplant psychosocial evaluations have been a traditional role of the psychiatric
consultation team in the transplantation process. These evaluations are frequently used to …