Tarunjeet Klair, Danielle Fritze, Glenn Halff, Ronit Patnaik, Elizabeth Thomas, Gregory Abrahamian, Jonathan M Cullen, Francisco Cigarroa
BACKGROUND: In the United States, the discrepancy between organ availability and need has persisted despite changes in allocation, innovations in preservation, and policy initiatives. Living donor liver transplant (LDLT) remains an underutilized means of improving access to timely liver transplantation and decreasing waitlist mortality. Liver paired exchange (LPE) represents an opportunity to overcome LDLT pair incompatibility due to size, anatomy, or blood type. METHODS: LPE was adopted as a strategy to augment access to liver transplantation at our institution...
May 13, 2024: Liver Transplantation