Identifying Donors at Risk for Perioperative Complications During LDLT

The University of Rochester and Pennsilvania published a retrospective study this month, regarding the risk factors involving living donor liver transplantation.

It is no secret that this surgery poses some problems. First, the surgery, a hepatectomy is performed on a completely healthy patient, and second, this patient is not benefitted from the procedure. This makes the procedure a technical and ethical challenge.

Recently, during the ESOT Congress, Dr. Rene Adam, from the Paul Brousse Hospital, and memeber of the European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR), commented on the statistics regarding LDLT. He made special emphasis on the 5 donor deaths to date.

The publication presented an extensive study, and identified center volume as a minor risk, and patient age > 50 years as a major risk factor.

American Journal of Transplantation 2007; 7: 2344–2349

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