Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the short-term outcomes of liver transplantation recipients receiving liver grafts from brain-death and non-heart-beating donors and evaluate the safety of liver grafts from brain-death donors. METHODS: A total of 130 patients receiving liver transplantation between January, 2006 and December, 2007 were retrospectively analyzed, including 9 patients receiving liver graft from brain-death donors and 121 with grafts from non-heart-beating donors. The operative time, anhepatic time, bleeding volume, postoperative complications and short-term survival were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: The operative time, anhepatic time, bleeding volume, postoperative complications and short-term survival showed no significant differences between the two groups. CONCLUSION: The short-term outcome of recipients receiving liver grafts from brain-death donors is similar to that of recipients receiving grafts from non-heart-beating donors, indicating the safety of clinical use of the liver grafts from brain-death donors.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2204-2206 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| State | Published - Dec 2008 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine