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Publication Information

PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2008
Affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. a2all-dcc@umich.edu
Authors
A2ALL Study Group, Emond JC, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Ghobrial RM, Koffron AJ, Ojo AO, Olthoff KM, Pruett TL, Tong L, Trotter JF
Studies
Citation
Ghobrial RM, Freise CE, Trotter JF, Tong L, Ojo AO, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Emond JC, Koffron AJ, Pruett TL, Olthoff KM, A2ALL Study Group. Donor morbidity after living donation for liver transplantation. Gastroenterology 2008 Aug;135(2):468-76. Epub 2008 Apr 22.

Abstract

Reports of complications among adult right hepatic lobe donors have been limited to single centers. The rate and severity of complications in living donors were investigated in the 9-center Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL).