title: Successful reuse of liver graft 13 years after initial transplantation.
abstract: The shortage of organ donors and the increased demand for liver transplantation has led to new strategies to increase the availability of liver grafts for transplantation. Occasionally, previous liver transplant recipients may experience brain death and become organ donors. Although this is a very rare situation, we and others have showed that reuse of liver grafts could be performed successfully within one week after transplantation. Late reuse has, however, not been reported to date. We report the first case in which a liver graft was successfully reused 13 years after the first transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Henri Mondor Hospital, University Paris XII, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tayar
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karoui
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laurent
authors.forename: Mehdi Ben
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hadjhamida
authors.forename: Jeanne Tran-Van
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Nhieu
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duvoux
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cherqui
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000166:cytology / Q000601:surgery; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome