TY - JOUR
T1 - Adult live donor liver transplantation
AU - Liu, Lawrence U.
AU - Schiano, Thomas D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Health Resources and Services Administration contract 231-00-0115. The content is the responsibility of the authors alone and does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the US Government.
PY - 2005/11
Y1 - 2005/11
N2 - LDLT offers definite advantages to the recipient. Conversely, it offers no advantages to the donor except for the possibility of psychological well-being from altruism stemming from the donation. There remains a significant need for determining the optimal process for donor evaluation, the necessary components of informed consent, the need to provide long-term formal psychosocial support for donors and to provide other long-term care and follow-up for donors, the relation of characteristics of the donor and the recipient to outcome, and the potential long-term adverse effects of partial-liver donation [42]. This can be achieved by conducting prospective clinical research studies aimed at the prospective collection of data on adult-to-adult liver transplantation for both donors and recipients. Currently, the National Institutes of Health is sponsoring a consortium of liver transplant centers to study LDLT outcomes in donors and recipients [144].
AB - LDLT offers definite advantages to the recipient. Conversely, it offers no advantages to the donor except for the possibility of psychological well-being from altruism stemming from the donation. There remains a significant need for determining the optimal process for donor evaluation, the necessary components of informed consent, the need to provide long-term formal psychosocial support for donors and to provide other long-term care and follow-up for donors, the relation of characteristics of the donor and the recipient to outcome, and the potential long-term adverse effects of partial-liver donation [42]. This can be achieved by conducting prospective clinical research studies aimed at the prospective collection of data on adult-to-adult liver transplantation for both donors and recipients. Currently, the National Institutes of Health is sponsoring a consortium of liver transplant centers to study LDLT outcomes in donors and recipients [144].
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/26044468239
U2 - 10.1016/j.cld.2005.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.cld.2005.08.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16207575
AN - SCOPUS:26044468239
SN - 1089-3261
VL - 9
SP - 767
EP - 786
JO - Clinics in Liver Disease
JF - Clinics in Liver Disease
IS - 4
ER -