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Improving Outcomes in DCDD Liver Transplantation: There Can Only Be Strength in Numbers
Author(s) -
Goldberg D. S.,
Abt P. L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.12697
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , liver transplantation , donation , organ donation , intensive care medicine , surgery , economics , economic growth
In the United States, liver transplantation using donation after circulatory determination of death (DCDD) donors is challenged by persistently inferior graft survival compared with donation after neurological death (DND), along with declining rates of liver transplantation relative to the total number of DCDD donors. Advances in adult‐to‐adult living donor liver transplantation graft survival temporally related to the Adult‐to‐Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study consortium suggest that a similarly focused collaborative effort may serve to stimulate evolution within DCDD liver transplantation. Without a multi‐center consortium to support innovative trials, the current state of DCDD liver transplantation is unlikely to progress.