Full-left-full-right split liver transplantation for adult recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Full-left-full-right split liver transplantation (FSLT) for adult recipients, may increase the availability of liver grafts, reduce waitlist time, and benefit recipients with below-average body weight. However, FSLT may lead to impaired graft and patient survival. This study aims to assess outcomes after FSLT. Five databases were searched to identify studies concerning FSLT. Incidences of complications, graft- and patient survival were assessed. Discrete data were pooled with random-effect models. Graft and patient survival after FSLT were compared with whole liver transplantation (WLT) according to the inverse variance method. Vascular complications were reported in 25/273 patients after FSLT (Pooled proportion: 6.9%, 95%CI: 3.1-10.7%, I² : 36%). Biliary complications were repo

SUBMITTER: Sneiders D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300103 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature