KMID : 0361120200340030178
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Korean Journal of Transplantation 2020 Volume.34 No. 3 p.178 ~ p.184
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Korea-nationwide incidence of pediatric deceased donors and single-institutional status of liver transplantation using pediatric donor liver grafts
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Namgung Jung-Man
Hwang Shin Ahn Chul-Soo Kim Ki-Hun Moon Deok-Bog Ha Tae-Yong Song Gi-Won Jung Dong-Hwan Park Gil-Chun Kim Dae-Yeon Kim Kyung-Mo Oh Seak-Hee Lee Sung-Gyu
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Abstract
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Background: The present study intended to investigate the allocation status of pediatric deceased donor liver allografts. We analyzed the incidence of pediatric deceased donors in the Korean Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS) database and single-institutional status of liver transplantation (LT) using pediatric donors.
Methods: We assessed the nationwide incidence of pediatric donors aged ¡Â15 years and conducted single-center analysis of LT using pediatric donors.
Results: Between 2010 and 2019, pediatric donors aged ¡Â15 years accounted for 171 out of 4,395 donors (3.9%) in the KONOS database and 31 out of 640 liver donors (4.8%) in Asan Medical Center (AMC) database. In AMC, 11 (35.5%) and 20 (64.5%) grafts were allocated to pediatric recipients aged ¡Â15 years and adult recipients aged ¡Ã19 years, respectively. All nine livers from donors aged ¡Â5 years were implanted in pediatric recipients aged ¡Â5 years. From 21 donors aged ¡Ã9 years, 16 whole liver grafts and four split extended right liver grafts were implanted in 20 adult recipients and two split left lateral section grafts were implanted in two pediatric recipients. Four split liver grafts were implanted in other institutions. The overall patient survival rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 90.9%, 80.8%, and 80.8%, respectively in pediatric-to-pediatric LT group and 69.6%, 58.4%, and 58.4%, respectively in pediatric-to-adult LT group (P=0.21).
Conclusions: More than half of the pediatric donor livers were allocated to adult patients. Recipient criteria for allocation of liver allografts from pediatric donors need revision for children on pediatric LT waitlist.
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KEYWORD
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Donor age, Pediatric donor, Deceased donor liver transplantation, Infant, Split liver transplantation
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