Current status of living donor liver transplantation in the United States

S Abu-Gazala, KM Olthoff - Annual review of medicine, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was introduced in response to the
shortage of deceased donor liver grafts. The number of adult living donor transplants is …

Status of adult living donor liver transplantation in the United States: results from the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study

S Abu-Gazala, KM Olthoff - Gastroenterology Clinics, 2018 - gastro.theclinics.com
The first adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant (ALDLT) in the United States was reported
in 1998 1 as a response to the shortage of organ donors. Since then, ALDLT has been …

Variation in adult living donor liver transplantation in the United States: Identifying opportunities for increased utilization

KL Lentine, T Tanaka, H Xiao, T Bittermann… - Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the United States, living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is limited to transplant
centers with specific experience. However, the impact of recipient characteristics on …

Living donor liver transplant candidate and donor selection and engagement: meeting report from the living donor liver transplant consensus conference

MT Jesse, WE Jackson, AM Liapakis… - Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a promising option for mitigating the
deceased donor organ shortage and reducing waitlist mortality. Despite excellent outcomes …

Supporting financial neutrality in donation of organs, cells, and tissues

DE Martin, AM Capron, RAS Fadhil, JLR Forsythe… - …, 2025 - journals.lww.com
The avoidance of financial gain in the human body is an international ethical standard that
underpins efforts to promote equity in donation and transplantation and to avoid the …

Perioperative management of living donor liver transplantation: Part 2–Donors

T Sakai, JS Ko, CE Crouch, S Kumar… - Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Living donor liver transplantation was first developed to mitigate the limited access to
deceased donor organs in Asia in the 1990s. This alternative liver transplantation method …

Prevalence and predictors of patient-reported long-term mental and physical health after donation in the adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation cohort study

MA Dew, Z Butt, Q Liu, MA Simpson, J Zee… - …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background Prospective and longitudinal studies have examined liver donors' medical
outcomes beyond the first 1 to 2 years postdonation. There is no analogous longitudinal …

[PDF][PDF] Fatigue, pain, and other physical symptoms of living liver donors in the adult‐to‐adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study

Z Butt, AF DiMartini, Q Liu, MA Simpson… - Liver …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known about living liver donors' perceptions of their physical well‐being following
the procedure. We collected data on donor fatigue, pain, and other relevant physical …

[HTML][HTML] Strengthening global efforts to combat organ trafficking and transplant tourism: implications of the 2018 edition of the Declaration of Istanbul

DE Martin, K Van Assche, B Domínguez-Gil… - Transplantation …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The 2018 Edition of the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant
Tourism (DoI) provides an updated set of principles and definitions to guide policymakers …

Global experience and perspective on anonymous nondirected live donation in living donor liver transplantation

MH Raza, H Aziz, N Kaur, M Lo, L Sher… - Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anonymous nondirected living liver donation (ANLLD), sometimes referred to as “altruistic”
donation, occurs when a biologically unrelated person comes forward to donate a portion of …