Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation with ABO-Incompatible Grafts A German Single Center Experience.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Transplantation Volume 2009, Article ID 759581, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2009/759581 Clinical Study Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation with ABO-Incompatible Grafts: A German Single Center Experience Armin D. Goralczyk,1 Aiman Obed,1 Andreas Schnitzbauer,2 Axel Doenecke,2 Tung Yu Tsui,2, 3 Marcus N. Scherer,2 Giuliano Ramadori,4 and Thomas Lorf1 1 Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University Medical Center Gottingen, 37099 Gottingen, Germany ¨ ¨ 2 Department of Surgery, Universitatsklinikum Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany ¨ 3 Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, ¨ 20246 Hamburg, Germany 4 Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Center Gottingen, 37099 Gottingen, Germany ¨ ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Armin D. Goralczyk, agoralczyk@med.uni-goettingen.de Received 24 July 2009; Accepted 18 October 2009 ¨ Recommended by Bernhard K. Kramer Adult living donor liver transplantations (ALDLTs) across the ABO blood group barrier have been reported in Asia, North Americas, and Europe, but not yet in Germany. Several strategies have been established to overcome the detrimental effects that are attached with such a disparity between donor and host, but no gold standard has yet emerged. Here, we present the first experiences with thre