[Comparison of the short-term outcomes of liver transplant recipients receiving liver grafts from brain-death and non-heart-beating donors].
OBJECTIVE
To compare the short-term outcomes of liver transplantation recipients receiving liver grafts from brain-death and non-heart-beating donors and evaluate the safety of liver grafts from brain-death donors.


METHODS
A total of 130 patients receiving liver transplantation between January, 2006 and December, 2007 were retrospectively analyzed, including 9 patients receiving liver graft from brain-death donors and 121 with grafts from non-heart-beating donors. The operative time, anhepatic time, bleeding volume, postoperative complications and short-term survival were compared between the two groups.


RESULTS
The operative time, anhepatic time, bleeding volume, postoperative complications and short-term survival showed no significant differences between the two groups.


CONCLUSIONS
The short-term outcome of recipients receiving liver grafts from brain-death donors is similar to that of recipients receiving grafts from non-heart-beating donors, indicating the safety of clinical use of the liver grafts from brain-death donors.
Wu
Lin-wei
LW
Organ Transplantation Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. lw97002@163.com
He
Xiao-shun
XS
Tai
Qiang
Q
Ju
Wei-qiang
WQ
Ma
Yi
Y
Wang
Dong-ping
DP
Zhu
Xiao-feng
XF
Huang
Jie-fu
JF
D000328:Adult; D001926:Brain Death; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000601:surgery; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014019:Tissue Donors; D016896:Treatment Outcome