Innovationen in der Leberchirurgie durch die Transplantation mit Lebendspende

“All‐in‐one” imaging protocols for the evaluation of potential living liver donors: Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging and multidetector computed tomography

“…8 In combination with improved surgical technique and highly developed immunosuppression, 9 this results in recipient survival rates as good as those obtained after conventional liver transplantation with full-sized deceased donor organs. 10 The critical issue of this procedure is the risk to the donors, who were healthy until the transplantation; this risk is now estimated to be 0.5% mortality and 21% postoperative morbidity. 1,11,12 To reduce such risk to a minimum, and also to avoid donor-recipient mismatch, the potential donors have to undergo an extensive stepwise evaluation process before being admitted to donation.…”