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A liver with polycystic liver disease as graft for orthotopic liver transplantation
M Glanemann1, W O Bechstein, A R Müller
1Department of Surgery, Virchow-Clinic, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
Clinical Transplantation
|June 27, 1998
Abstract:
Donor organ shortage calls for widening of criteria for organ transplantation. In exceptional cases, even livers with macroscopic alterations may be accepted for transplantation. The case of a patient who received a liver graft from a donor with previously unknown adult polycystic degeneration is reported. The liver showed only small bilobar cysts with less than 10% of hepatic replacement and was successfully used for orthotopic liver transplantation. Two years after transplantation the patient is in good clinical condition and has returned to work.