Multicenter Matched-pair Analysis of Extended Right Lobe Versus Whole Organ Liver Transplantation: A Snap Shot of the Tragic Situation in Germany

Affiliations

¹ Department of Visceral Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
³ Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
⁴ Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁵ Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplant and Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
⁶ Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
⁷ Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Multicenter Study

Uta Herden et al. Transplantation. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 1;106(8):1510-1512.

doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003982. Epub 2022 Jul 22.

¹ Department of Visceral Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
³ Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
⁴ Department of General Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁵ Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplant and Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
⁶ Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
⁷ Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no funding or conflicts of interest.

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