Liver Transplantation
Research from Kyoto University Broadens Understanding of Liver Transplation
Published in Blood Weekly, September 22nd, 2011
2011 SEP 22 -- "The goal of this study was to examine whether the lower limit of the graft-to-recipient weight ratio (GRWR) can be safely reduced to make better use of a left-lobe graft in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in combination with portal pressure control. Beginning in December 2007, our institution actively selected left-lobe grafts for use in liver transplantation seeking to minimize the risks to healthy donors," researchers in Kyoto, Japan report.
"We gradually decreased the lower limit of the GRWR to preferentially select a left-lobe over a right-lobe graft: from >= 0.7% beginning in December 2007 to >= 0.6%...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2011-09-22)
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