title: [Comparison of the short-term outcomes of liver transplant recipients receiving liver grafts from brain-death and non-heart-beating donors].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Organ Transplantation Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. lw97002@163.com
authors.forename: Lin-wei
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xiao-shun
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Tai
authors.forename: Wei-qiang
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Dong-ping
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Jie-fu
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: 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