Saturday 8 September 2012

Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Acute Liver Failure Fosters Excellent Survival Rates

Nearly three out of four Japanese patients who underwent living donor liver transplantation following acute liver failure managed to live for more than ten years after the surgery. The findings, published in the September issue of iLiver Transplantation/i, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), suggest that the type of liver disease or treatment plan does not affect long-term patient survival following LDLT. Donor and ...

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