RT Book, Section
A1 Sotiropoulos, Georgios C.
A1 Moris, Dimitrios
A2 Molmenti, Ernesto Pompeo
A2 Santibañes, Martin de
A2 Santibañes, Eduardo de
SR Print(0)
ID 1180108920
T1 Expanded-Criteria Donors in Liver Transplantation
T2 Liver Transplantation: Operative Techniques and Medical Management
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260462517
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180108920
RD 2024/04/23
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.