Impact of COVID-19 on living donor liver and kidney transplantation programs in Japan in 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although many transplant programs have been forced to suspend living donor transplants due to the emergence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), there are relatively few real-time databases to assess center-level transplant activities. We aimed to delineate the actual impact of COVID-19 on living donor transplant programs and the resumption process in Japan.

Methods

In a nationwide survey, questionnaires were sent to 32 liver transplant programs that had performed at least more than one case of living donor liver transplantation in 2019 and 132 kidney transplant programs that had performed more than one living donor kidney transplantation in 2018.

Results

Thirty-one (96.9%) and 125 (94.7%) liver and kidney transplant programs responded, respectively. In the e

SUBMITTER: Kuramitsu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9348111 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature