OUTCOME OF DONORS AFTER LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Abstract

Selection and evaluation of living liver donor for adult recipient is a complicated process involves optimizing graft size in relation to the safety of both donors and recipients, technical details of liver procurement, and ethical problems of using non related live donors (Du et al., 2014). Donor hepatectomy entails morbidity and mortality risks. Approximately one third of the patients experience some kind of complication, the majority of which are type I or II according to the Clavien-Dindo classification system (Hwang et al., 2006) Donor safety is the most important clinical issue related to LDLT and all potential living donors should be informed about the risks of surgery (Sevmis et al., 2008). This study was conducted in Ain Shams Center of Liver Transplantation (ASCOT), in the period from January 2011 to December 2014. We performed this observational study on 123 donors who were recruited for living-donor liver transplantation. The aim of the current study was to highlight the outcomes of donors after LDLT, possible complications that can occur and also the predictors and possible risk factors