The dilemma of living liver donor death: to report or not to report?
Living donor liver transplantation has become a life-saving alternative for end-stage liver disease patients who have no chance of receiving a deceased donor organ. On the basis of information available to the medical community, mortality risk for the living donor is reviewed and implications of not reporting donor deaths are discussed.
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Burckhardt
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Department of Surgery, Center for Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Disease, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA. burckhardt.ringe@drexelmed.edu
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Russell W
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D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D019520:Living Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*