The future of Liver Transplantation

S Feng, GR Roll, FJ Rouhani, AS Fueyo - Hepatology, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Over the last 50 years, liver transplantation has evolved into a procedure routinely
performed in many countries worldwide. Those able to access this therapy frequently …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced role of multipair donor swaps in response to size incompatibility: The first two 5-way and the first 6-way liver paired exchanges

S Yilmaz, T Sönmez, MU Ünver, V Ince… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
A significant portion of liver transplantations in many countries is conducted via living-donor
liver transplantation (LDLT). However, numerous potential donors are unable to donate to …

[HTML][HTML] Training the Next Generation of Transplant Surgeons With a 3-Dimensional Trainer: A Pilot Study

J Sanchez-Garcia, F Lopez-Verdugo… - Transplantation …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background. In the United States, no published guidelines promote exposure to technical
variants (ie, living donor or split liver) during transplant fellowship. Simulation with hands-on …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of hepatic steatosis of potential living donor before liver transplantation using liver/spleen CT attenuation ratio compared to liver biopsy

HM Atef, EM Korayem, NA Ahmed, MM Houseni… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Hepatic steatosis has become a major worldwide health problem, so
assessment of hepatic steatosis in potential living donors is crucial prior to 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 …

Future of US living donor liver transplant: Donor and recipient criteria, transplant indications, transplant oncology, liver paired exchange and non-directed donor graft …

K Bambha, SW Biggins, C Hughes, A Humar… - Liver … - journals.lww.com
In the US, living donor liver transplant (LDLT), from both directed and non-directed living
donors, has expanded over the past several years. LDLT is viewed as an important …