Abstract
Benefits and ethical issues in domino liver transplant
Highlights
Benefits and ethical issues in domino liver transplantNicolae Bacalbasa, MD, PhD, Irina Balescu, MD, Assoc
The techniques of hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery as well as those of liver transplantation significantly improved in the last decades, there is still an important gap between the number of donors and the number of cases necessitating a liver graft
The most commonly accepted ones are represented by harvesting a hemi liver from a living donor or splitting the graft for two donors; another option which has been proposed in the domino liver transplantation [1,2]
Summary
Nicolae Bacalbasa, MD, PhD, Irina Balescu, MD, Assoc. Adina Croitoru, MD, PhD, Simona Dima, MD, Assist. Iulian Brezean, MD, PhD 1 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. 2 “Ion Cantacuzino” Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 3 “Ponderas” Academic Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4 Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania
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