Open AccessSingle-Center Experience With Liver Transplantation From Controlled Non-Heartbeating Donors
Author(s) -
Paolo Muiesan,
Raffaele Girlanda,
Wayel Jassem,
Hector Vilca Melendez,
John O’Grady,
Matthew Bowles,
Mohamed Rela,
Nigel Heaton
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000186177.26112.d2
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , liver transplantation , surgery , bleed , sepsis , machine perfusion , malignancy , ischemia , anesthesia
To increase the number of livers available for transplantation a non-heartbeating donor (NHBD) liver transplant program was started after obtaining hospital ethical committee approval.