A marginal liver graft with hyperbilirubinemia transplanted successfully by ischemia-free liver transplantation.

ABSTRACT: The shortage of transplant organs remains a serious issue worldwide, and using liver grafts from extended criteria donors could expand the donor pool. Extended criteria donor liver allografts have a high chance of complications such as primary nonfunction, early allograft dysfunction, and ischemic-type biliary lesions. How to employ these extended criteria donors safely and effectively warrants further investigation. Herein, we report the successful use of a marginal donor liver with hyperbilirubinemia to save the life of an acute-on-chronic liver failure recipient using a new surgical technique: ischemia-free liver transplantation (IFLT). The graft was retrieved for transplantation due to the following reasons: (I) the recipient was in a life-threatening situation and no living donor dona

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8033382 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature