Report of a Child Donors Liver Transplanted into an Adult Recipient.
- Author:
Ki Hun KIM
1
;
Sung Gyu LEE
;
Young Joo LEE
;
Kwang Min PARK
;
Shin HWANG
;
Dong Lak CHOI
;
Chung Hyun NAM
;
Sung Ho CHO
;
Pyung Chul MIN
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Child donor;
Orthotopic liver transplantation
- MeSH:
Adult*;
Allografts;
Body Size;
Child*;
Chungcheongnam-do;
Humans;
Liver*;
Tissue Donors*;
Transplants
- From:Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
1999;57(Suppl):1046-1049
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Under normal circumstances, attempts are made to match the recipient of an orthotopic liver transplant with the best available donor in terms of organ and body size. Occasionally, it may happen that a child's liver is transplanted into an adult recipient, either because of the need for an urgent transplantation when only a small donor is available or because there is no child recipient transplantable with the graft. After a child-donor's liver was transplanted into an adult recipient, we had the opportunity to observe the change in the size of the allograft over time by using serial computed tomography scans to evaluate change in graft size. Reported here are the results of the small-for-size live transplantation at Asan Medical Center.
