Feasibility and safety of using low-body-weight donors in pediatric liver transplantation
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Zhuolun Song, Nan Ma, Chong Dong, Chao Sun, Xingchu Meng, Wei Zhang, Kai Wang, Bin Wu, Shanni Li, Hong Qin, Chao Han, Haohao Li, Wei Gao, Zhongyang Shen
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Abstract
Background
Donors with low-body-weight were previously reported to be related to inferior recipient outcomes in pediatric liver transplantation. However, the scarce availability of age and size-matched organs has encouraged us to re-evaluate the feasibility and safety of using low-body-weight donors.
Methods
We retrospectively analyzed 91 deceased donor pediatric liver transplantation between January 2014 and December 2016, donor weight less than 5 kg was defined as low-body-weight donors. The recipients were divided into two groups according to donor weight.
(≤5 kg and 5 kg
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