TY - JOUR
T1 - Expanding the donor pool for liver transplantation with marginal donors
AU - Goldaracena, Nicolas
AU - Cullen, J. Michael
AU - Kim, Dong Sik
AU - Ekser, Burcin
AU - Halazun, Karim J.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - The current supply of acceptable donor livers is not sufficient to meet the demands of listed patients awaiting transplantation resulting in thousands of deaths each year. Increased utilization of marginal livers may help alleviate this supply/demand mismatch by expanding the donor liver pool. The current status of liver transplantation using marginal donor grafts and efforts to optimize usage are discussed with attention to elderly donors, steatotic livers, donors after circulatory death, and split liver grafts.
AB - The current supply of acceptable donor livers is not sufficient to meet the demands of listed patients awaiting transplantation resulting in thousands of deaths each year. Increased utilization of marginal livers may help alleviate this supply/demand mismatch by expanding the donor liver pool. The current status of liver transplantation using marginal donor grafts and efforts to optimize usage are discussed with attention to elderly donors, steatotic livers, donors after circulatory death, and split liver grafts.
KW - Expanding the donor pool
KW - Liver transplantation
KW - Marginal organs
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.05.024
DO - 10.1016/j.ijsu.2020.05.024
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 32422385
AN - SCOPUS:85085209724
VL - 82
SP - 30
EP - 35
JO - International Journal of Surgery
JF - International Journal of Surgery
SN - 1743-9191
ER -