TY - JOUR
T1 - Liver transplantation at UCLA. Program development, organization, initiation, and early results
AU - Busuttil, Ronald W.
AU - Memsic, Leslie D.F.
AU - Quinones-Baldrich, William
AU - Hiatt, Jonathan R.
AU - Ramming, Kenneth P.
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tion program. The operating team must have extensive experience in vascular, hepatobiliary, and transplantation surgery. Orthotopic liver transplantation should be carried out in a tertiary medical center with the broad range of medical and ancillary support services deemed necessary by the National Institutes of Health consensus conference on liver transplantation held in 1963 [2]. The UCLA Medical Center is such a tertiary care teaching facility and has fulfilled those institutional requirements.
PY - 1986/7
Y1 - 1986/7
N2 - The development of a liver transplantation program requires a multidisciplinary approach which can only be provided in a large tertiary referral medical center. Preparation for the clinical program involves training of all team members, both in the animal laboratory and at an established liver transplant center. A special commitment from the medical center to the program is essential and involves medical, nursing, and administrative divisions, blood bank, social service, and operating room personnel, and intensive care unit facilities. With careful planning, a successful liver transplant program can be realized from the onset. In the first 2 years of UCLA's liver transplant program, 62 transplants in 50 patients were performed. The overall survival rate was 72 percent with no operative deaths. Thirty-four of 36 surviving patients have returned to useful, productive lives after orthotopic liver transplantation.
AB - The development of a liver transplantation program requires a multidisciplinary approach which can only be provided in a large tertiary referral medical center. Preparation for the clinical program involves training of all team members, both in the animal laboratory and at an established liver transplant center. A special commitment from the medical center to the program is essential and involves medical, nursing, and administrative divisions, blood bank, social service, and operating room personnel, and intensive care unit facilities. With careful planning, a successful liver transplant program can be realized from the onset. In the first 2 years of UCLA's liver transplant program, 62 transplants in 50 patients were performed. The overall survival rate was 72 percent with no operative deaths. Thirty-four of 36 surviving patients have returned to useful, productive lives after orthotopic liver transplantation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9610(86)90146-7
DO - 10.1016/0002-9610(86)90146-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 3524291
AN - SCOPUS:0022532191
VL - 152
SP - 75
EP - 80
JO - The American Journal of Surgery
JF - The American Journal of Surgery
SN - 0002-9610
IS - 1
ER -