Pre-operative assessment of living liver donors' liver anatomy and volumes

N Goldaracena, PA Vargas, L McCormack - Updates in Surgery, 2024 - Springer
Decades of experience supports LDLT as a favorable strategy to reduce waitlist mortality.
The multiple regenerative pathways of hepatocytes and other hepatic cells justify the …

Preventing small-for-size syndrome in living donor liver transplantation: guidelines from the ILTS-iLDLT-LTSI consensus conference

AR Hakeem, JS Mathew, CV Aunés, A Mazzola… - …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) is a well-recognized complication following liver
transplantation (LT), with up to 20% developing this following living donor LT (LDLT) …

The aim of donor safety: surgical approaches and current results

CTJ Magyar, WJ Choi, Z Li, MS Cattral, N Selzner… - Updates in surgery, 2024 - Springer
Living liver donation (LLD) has been suggested as a potential solution to reduce the waitlist
mortality for liver transplantation (LT) recipients by facilitating living donor liver …

Collaborative leadership in transplantation: Blending clinical, business, and regulatory roles

MM Crespo, M Samra, A Korsun, L Butler… - Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transplantation is a high‐risk, high‐cost treatment for end‐stage diseases and is the most
strictly regulated area of healthcare in the United States. Thus, achieving success for …

Survival benefit of living-donor liver transplantation in patients with a model for end-stage liver disease over 30 in a region with severe organ shortage: a retrospective …

SH Yim, DG Kim, M Kang, HH Koh… - … Journal of Surgery, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background: The benefits of living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in patients with a high
Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score (who have high waitlist mortality) are …

Current status and challenges of living donor liver transplantation in the United States

C Tien, HH Han - Clinical Liver Disease, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) offers greater access to transplantation, reduced
waitlist mortality, and superior long-term outcomes compared to deceased donor liver …

[PDF][PDF] Living donor liver transplantation in the United States: The way forward

HS Te, A Humar - Clinical Transplantation, 2023 - knowledge.uchicago.edu
The success of the first living donor liver transplant (LDLT) performed in a child in Brisbane 1
followed shortly by a series of twenty successful pediatric cases in Chicago 2 opened the …