Recipient deaths during donor surgery: A new ethical problem in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 358-360

  Siegler, Mark ^a,b   Simmerling, Mary C ^b,c   Siegler, Jessica H ^d   Cronin II, David C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL RISK;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33645320250     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20670     Document Type: Editorial

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