TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Expanded-Criteria Donors in Liver Transplantation A1 - Sotiropoulos, Georgios C. A1 - Moris, Dimitrios A2 - Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo A2 - Santibañes, Martin de A2 - Santibañes, Eduardo de PY - 2021 T2 - Liver Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management AB - It is common sense that one of the major problems for liver transplantation (LT)—and transplantation in general—is the discrepancy between the donor and recipient numbers, with far fewer donors than recipients. As a consequence, patients with liver failure have to wait for a long time before they can be offered an allograft.In this frame of universal shortage of organs, as well as the risk and cost of the LT, efforts have been made to overcome it by exploring new sources of grafts along with measures to improve and prolong graft function and survival.The use of expanded-criteria donors has been utilized to increase the donor pool.Expanded liver donor criteria are not strictly defined.A combination of different donor characteristics could create the profile of an expanded liver donor. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180108920 ER -