SEQUENTIAL ORTHOTOPIC LIVER-TRANSPLANTATI ON - DOMINO TRANSPLANTATION

Citation
Uj. Hesse et al., SEQUENTIAL ORTHOTOPIC LIVER-TRANSPLANTATI ON - DOMINO TRANSPLANTATION, Chirurg, 68(10), 1997, pp. 1011-1013
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
ISSN journal
00094722
Volume
68
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1011 - 1013
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-4722(1997)68:10<1011:SOLO-D>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is a rare indication for liver t ransplantation. The excised liver of the FAP patient can be transplant ed into a selected patient. In the following report, sequential Liver transplantation is described where a 34-year-old female FAP patient re ceived a cadaver donor liver. The excised native liver was transplante d to a 60-year-old male patient suffering from hepatocellular carcinom a in cirrhosis due to hepatitis C.