Live donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure
Articles > Article · 2007
Authors: Murat KILIÇ, Unal AYDIN, Aysin NOYAN, Cigdern ARIKAN, Sema AYDOĞDU, Murat AKILDIZ, Abdullah Zeki KARASU, Murat ZEYTÜNLÜ, Mehmet ALPER, Yucel BATUR
TRANSPLANTATION, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2007, vol 84, pp 475-479
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000276987.55382.e2
Summary
Background. Acute liver failure (ALF) carries a high mortality unless urgent orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is performed on time. Live donors are utilized to treat this irreversible condition first in pediatric cases and then in adults. Herein, we aimed to report our experience with live donors for ALF in a country of a deceased donor organ donation rate is only 1.5 per million people.