Liver Transplantation - Ethics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Usage of marginal organs for liver transplantation: a way around the critical organ shortage?]

18 Apr 2009 The transplantation of marginal organs or those meeting the so-called extended donor criteria (EDC) is today a significant option to alleviate the low availability or organs and to increase the number of transplantation which in turn is -accompanied ... Read more...

Moral and ethical issues in living-donor liver transplant in Egypt.

27 Feb 2009 OBJECTIVES: Since brain-death criteria are not accepted in Egypt, only organs acquired from living donors can be used for transplant. Our objective was to highlight the ethical issues raised by living-donor liver transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ... Read more...

Candidate selection and organ allocation in liver transplantation.

21 Feb 2009 Optimal candidate selection and organ allocation should offer liver transplantation to those who are sufficiently sick to justify the procedure but not too sick to benefit from it, in an order determined by patients' projected survival benefit, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Liver Transplantation - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Survival benefit of liver transplantation: one size fits all or fits none? 30 Jul 2009
• Who has capacity? 14 Jul 2009
• [Usage of marginal organs for liver transplantation: a way around the critical organ shortage?] 18 Apr 2009
• Living-related liver transplantation for acute liver failure. 30 Mar 2009
• Moral and ethical issues in living-donor liver transplant in Egypt. 27 Feb 2009
• Candidate selection and organ allocation in liver transplantation. 21 Feb 2009
• Responsibility and priority in liver transplantation. 30 Dec 2008
• From the editors. 30 Dec 2008
• Report of the Paris consensus meeting on expanded criteria donors in liver transplantation. 29 Nov 2008
• Current status of hepatic transplantation. Anatomical basis for liver transplantation. 30 Aug 2008
• Beyond utilitarianism: a method for analyzing competing ethical principles in a decision analysis of liver transplantation. 23 Aug 2008
• Metastatic hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in a teenage girl. 29 Jun 2008
• Ethics and liver transplantation: a new section in our journal. 29 Jun 2008
• Domino liver transplantation. 4 Apr 2008
• Donor evaluation and hepatectomy for living-donor liver transplantation. 4 Apr 2008
• When good organs go to bad people. 30 Jan 2008
• Living donor liver transplantation: The ethics and the practice. 30 Dec 2007
• Selection of patients for liver transplantation and allocation of donated livers in the UK. 23 Sep 2007
• Single-center experience on liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma arising in alcoholic cirrhosis: results and ethical issues. 21 Aug 2007
• Death of a living liver donor from illicit drugs. 30 Jul 2007

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Technical information about 'Liver Transplantation'

Definition: The transference of a part of or an entire liver from one human or animal to another.

Descriptor UI: D016031

Alternative terms: Liver Transplantation; Transplantation, Liver; Liver Transplantations; Transplantations, Liver; Transplantation, Hepatic; Hepatic Transplantation; Hepatic Transplantations; Transplantations, Hepatic; Grafting, Liver; Graftings, Liver; Liver Grafting; Liver Graftings;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; ethnology; immunology; pathology; physiology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; ultrasonography;

Tree Number: E04.210.650; E04.936.450.490; E04.936.580.490;

History Note: 90; was LIVER/transplantation 1966-89

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition; do not coord with TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS unless particularly discussed