Superior Outcomes and Reduced Wait Times in Pediatric Recipients of Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is increasingly used to bridge the gap between the current supply and demand imbalance for deceased donor organs to provide lifesaving liver transplantation. Outcomes of 135 children who underwent LDLT were compared with 158 recipients of deceased donor live...

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Published inTransplantation direct Vol. 5; no. 3; p. e430
Main Authors Kehar, Mohit, Parekh, Rulan S., Stunguris, Jennifer, De Angelis, Maria, Van Roestel, Krista, Ghanekar, Anand, Cattral, Mark, Fecteau, Annie, Ling, Simon, Kamath, Binita M., Jones, Nicola, Avitzur, Yaron, Grant, David, Ng, Vicky Lee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.03.2019
Wolters Kluwer
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Summary:Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is increasingly used to bridge the gap between the current supply and demand imbalance for deceased donor organs to provide lifesaving liver transplantation. Outcomes of 135 children who underwent LDLT were compared with 158 recipients of deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) at the largest pediatric liver transplant program in Canada. Recipients of LDLT were significantly younger than deceased donor recipients ( ≤ 0.001), less likely to require dialysis pretransplant ( < 0.002) and had shorter wait time duration when the primary indication was cholestatic liver disease ( = 0.003). The LDLT donors were either related genetically or emotionally (79%), or unrelated (21%) to the pediatric recipients. One-, 5-, and 10-year patient survival rates were significantly higher in LDLT (97%, 94%, and 94%) compared with DDLT (92%, 87%, and 80%; log-rank = 0.02) recipients, as were graft survival rates (96%, 93%, and 93% for LDLT versus 89%, 81.4%, and 70%, respectively, for DDLT; log-rank = 0.001). Medical and surgical complications were not statistically different between groups. Graft failure was higher in recipients of DDLT (odds ratio, 2.60; 95% confidence interval, 1.02, 6.58) than in the LDLT group after adjustment for clinical characteristics and propensity score. Living donor liver transplantation provides superior outcomes for children and is an excellent and effective strategy to increase the chances of receiving a liver transplant.
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ISSN:2373-8731
2373-8731
DOI:10.1097/TXD.0000000000000865