2024
DOI: 10.1007/s13304-024-01806-6
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Pre-operative assessment of living liver donors’ liver anatomy and volumes

Nicolas Goldaracena,
Paola A. Vargas,
Lucas McCormack

Abstract: Decades of experience supports LDLT as a favorable strategy to reduce waitlist mortality. The multiple regenerative pathways of hepatocytes and other hepatic cells justify the rationale behind it. Nonetheless, living liver donation is still underused and its broader implementation is challenging, mostly due to variability in practices leading to concerns related to donor safety. A non-systematic literature search was conducted for peer-reviewed original articles related to pre-operative evaluation of living li… Show more

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“…LDLT faced initial skepticism because of the fear of living liver donors' morbidity to a supposedly healthy person undergoing a major surgery like right lobe living donor hepatectomy [5,6,8,37]. To reduce this morbidity, extensive preoperative evaluation of living liver donors has been integrated into the practice of LDLT [38]. The preoperative evaluation is aimed at a systemic evaluation to ensure that the living liver donor has no systemic changes that will precipitate morbidity or mortality during or after surgery.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…LDLT faced initial skepticism because of the fear of living liver donors' morbidity to a supposedly healthy person undergoing a major surgery like right lobe living donor hepatectomy [5,6,8,37]. To reduce this morbidity, extensive preoperative evaluation of living liver donors has been integrated into the practice of LDLT [38]. The preoperative evaluation is aimed at a systemic evaluation to ensure that the living liver donor has no systemic changes that will precipitate morbidity or mortality during or after surgery.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%