Expanding Donor Selection and Recipient Indications for Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Extended criteria
Liver transplant
Living donor
Transplant oncology
Journal
Clinics in liver disease
ISSN: 1557-8224
Titre abrégé: Clin Liver Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9710002
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2021
02 2021
Historique:
entrez:
12
5
2021
pubmed:
13
5
2021
medline:
26
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
There is an acute shortage of deceased donor organs for liver transplantation in the United States. Nearly a third of patients either die or become too sick for transplant while on the transplant waitlist. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) bridges the gap between demand and supply of organs for liver transplantation. This article reviews current living donor selection criteria, and avenues for expansion of criteria with novel surgical techniques and ongoing outcomes research. Ways in which institutions can establish and expand LDLT programs using the Living Donor Champion model are discussed. Efforts to expand recipient indications for LDLT are described.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33978574
pii: S1089-3261(20)30075-1
doi: 10.1016/j.cld.2020.08.011
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
121-135Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Disclosure The authors have nothing to disclose.