Liver Transplantation at KFSHRC: Achievement and Challenges

The liver transplantation program at KFSHRC has been active since 2001. More than 450 liver transplants have been performed so far. The program evolved from adult cadaveric transplant to living donor and recently to pediatric and split techniques. The 1-year survival of patients for both pediatric a...

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Autores principales: Al Sebayel, Mohammed I., Abaalkhail, Faisal A., Al Bahili, Hamad, Abdo, Almoutaz Hashim, Elsiesy, Hussein A., Al Sofayan, Mohammed S., El Sheikh, Yasser M., Hegab, Bassem S., Kamel, Yasser M., AlGoufi, Talal T., Hasssan, Hazem H., Burdelski, Martin M., Al Shagrani, Mohammad A., Abdelfattah, Mohamed R., Attallah, Khaled M., Mahmood, Talat Z., Saleh, Yahya Z., Eldeen, Firas Zahr, Broering, Dieter C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2014
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Special Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24894777
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2014.103
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Sumario:The liver transplantation program at KFSHRC has been active since 2001. More than 450 liver transplants have been performed so far. The program evolved from adult cadaveric transplant to living donor and recently to pediatric and split techniques. The 1-year survival of patients for both pediatric and adult exceeded 90% and the 5-year survival of patients is more than 80%. Associated with this success are challenges that include: organ shortage, quality of organ harvested, inability to meet the growing national need, increased demand of resource to meet the need of the program, and lack of a collaborative national strategy in organ donation and transplantation.

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