1. Shipping impact on liver graft: results of liver transplantation program in Andalusia
- Author
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V.C. Marente, Francisco Javier Padillo Ruiz, C.O. Oliver, Miguel Ángel Gómez Bravo, J.S.D. Canedo, Jose M. Martinez, Gonzalo Suárez Artacho, Carmen Bernal Bellido, Luis Miguel Gómez, and L.B. Pulido
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Tissue and Organ Procurement ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Transportation ,Liver transplantation ,Liver disease ,Residence Characteristics ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Hepatectomy ,Humans ,Distribution model ,Warm Ischemia ,Survival analysis ,Retrospective Studies ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Cold Ischemia ,Graft Survival ,Retrospective cohort study ,Patient survival ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Survival Analysis ,Tissue Donors ,Surgery ,Liver Transplantation ,Liver graft ,Treatment Outcome ,Waiting list ,Spain ,Tissue and Organ Harvesting ,Female ,business ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
Liver transplantation for the treatment of patients with advanced liver disease is organized according to a waiting list taking into account different criteria. The agreed distribution model in Andalusia assumes that sometimes an organ is extracted in a different province to that where the implantation is to be performed (shipping), which, therefore, increases the graft ischemic time. The aim of the present study was to determine whether transportation of the organ and being harvested by a team other than the implantation team have a negative effect on final patient survival.
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- 2013