Sentences with phrase «deceased donor liver»
From 2006 to 2013, all seven patients with acute liver failure who underwent a LDLT were compared with all 26 patients who underwent a deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT).
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In Japan, where the shortage is worse, the number of people in need of new livers is 10 times as great as the number of deceased donors who could provide one.
The only effective therapy is liver transplantation, but the deceased donor supply of livers is often not timely enough.
«Liver transplant patients who receive organs from living donors more likely to survive than those who receive organs from deceased donors.»
The only current treatment for end - stage liver disease is a liver transplant, and the number of livers available from deceased donors is limited.
Domino liver transplant procedures are aptly named for the sequential, one - after - the - other nature of the process in which a viable liver from a deceased donor is transplanted into the first recipient, and the first recipientâ $ ™ s organ is then transplanted into a second recipient.
The NPRM's proposed approach did not differentiate between situations in which the donor was competent to consent to the donation — for example, when an individual is donating blood, sperm, a kidney, or a liver or lung lobe — and situations in which the donor was deceased, for example, when cadaveric organs and tissues were being donated.