Living vs deceased donor liver transplantation in cholestatic liver disease: An analysis of the OPTN database.
Ioannis A ZiogasSophoclis P AlexopoulosLea K MatsuokaSunil K GeevargheseLee D GordenSeth J KarpJames D PerkinsMartin I MontenovoPublished in: Clinical transplantation (2020)
DBD, DCD, and LDLT were associated with comparable overall patient survival. No difference in the risk of graft failure could be observed between LDLT and DBD. DCD can be an acceptable alternative to DBD with equivalent patient survival, but inferior graft survival likely related to the high rate of biliary complications.