Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on liver donation and transplantation: A review of the literature.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has upended healthcare systems worldwide and led to an inevitable decrease in liver transplantation (LT) activity. During the first pandemic wave, administrators and clinicians were obliged to make the difficult decision of whether to suspend or continue a life-saving procedure based on the scarce available evidence regarding the risk of transmission and mortality in immunosuppressed patients. Those centers where the activity continued or was heavily restricted were obliged to screen donors and recipients, design COVID-safe clinical pathways, and promote telehealth to prevent nosocomial transmission. Despite the ever-growing literature on COVID-19, the amount of high-quality literature on LT remains limited. This review will provide an updat

SUBMITTER: De Carlis R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7968133 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature