Korean J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg.  2013 Feb;17(1):1-7. 10.14701/kjhbps.2013.17.1.1.

Liver retransplantation for adult recipients

• Hwang S
• Ahn CS
• Kim KH
• Moon DB
• Ha TY
• Song GW
• Jung DH
• Park GC
• Lee SG

• KMID: 2243162
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.14701/kjhbps.2013.17.1.1

Abstract

Living donor liver graft can be used for the first or second liver transplantation. The timing of retransplantation also should be stratified as 2 types according to the reoperation timing. Combination of these two classifications results in 6 types of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)-associated retransplantation. However, late retransplantation to LDLT might have not been performed in most LDLT programs, thus other 4 types of LDLT-associated retransplantation can be taken into account. The most typical type of LDLT-associated retransplantation might be early living donor-to-deceased donor retransplantation. For early living donor-to-living donor retransplantation, its eligibility criteria might be similar to those of early living donor-to-deceased donor retransplantation. For early deceased donor-to-living donor retransplantation, its indications are exactly the same to those for aforementioned living donor-to-living donor retransplantation. Late deceased donor retransplantation after initial LDLT has the same indication for ordinary late deceased donor retransplantation.

Keyword

Living donor liver transplantation; Deceased donor liver transplantation; Retransplantation

MeSH Terms

Adult
Cinnarizine
Humans
Liver
Liver Transplantation
Living Donors
Reoperation
Tissue Donors
Transplants
Cinnarizine

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