Late reuse of liver allografts from brain-dead graft recipients: The Munich experience and a review of the literature
Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: The increasing donor organ shortage requires the consideration of any possible organ donor in order to meet the current demand. However, the growing number of long-term survivors of liver transplantation may create a situation in which former organ recipients may experience brain death with a functioning graft and therefore become organ donors themselves. Previous reports concerning this rare situation predominantly refer to the reuse of donor organs within the first 8 days after primary liver transplantation. So far, only a single case of late reuse of a donor liver has been published, with 2 additional cases mentioned in a summary of the United Network for Organ Sharing database. Here we report the case of a 43-year-old female donor who had received a liver graft for complications of Budd-Chiari syndrome 5 years before becoming an organ donor herself after cerebral infarction with consecutive brain death.
Source: Liver Transplantation
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22053
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2092932012