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Affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. CLB7D@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Authors
A2ALL Study Group, Abecassis MM, Berg CL, Brown RS Jr, Everhart JE, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Ghobrial RM, Gillespie BW, Merion RM, Shaked A, Trotter JF
Studies
Citation
Berg CL, Gillespie BW, Merion RM, Brown RS Jr, Abecassis MM, Trotter JF, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Ghobrial RM, Shaked A, Fair JH, Everhart JE, A2ALL Study Group. Improvement in survival associated with adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. Gastroenterology 2007 Dec;133(6):1806-13. Epub 2007 Sep 14.Abstract
More than 2000 adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantations (LDLT) have been performed in the United States, yet the potential benefit to liver transplant candidates of undergoing LDLT compared with waiting for deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) is unknown. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a survival benefit of adult LDLT.