Survival of Patients With Liver Transplants Donated After Euthanasia, Circulatory Death, or Brain Death at a Single Center in Belgium

Nicholas Gilbo; Ina Jochmans; Daniel Jacobs-Tulleneers-Thevissen; Albert Wolthuis; Mauricio Sainz-Barriga; Jacques Pirenne; Diethard Monbaliu

doi:10.1001/jama.2019.6553

Survival of Patients With Liver Transplants Donated After Euthanasia, Circulatory Death, or Brain Death at a Single Center in Belgium

JAMA. 2019 Jul 2;322(1):78-80. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.6553.

Authors

Nicholas Gilbo¹, Ina Jochmans¹, Daniel Jacobs-Tulleneers-Thevissen², Albert Wolthuis³, Mauricio Sainz-Barriga¹, Jacques Pirenne¹, Diethard Monbaliu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery and Coordination, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² Department of Surgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Abstract

This study compares graft and patient survival rates after transplantation of livers donated after euthanasia vs after circulatory death or brain death at a hospital in Belgium, where euthanasia is legalized.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Belgium
Brain Death
Euthanasia*
Graft Survival
Humans
Liver Transplantation / mortality*
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Survival Analysis
Tissue Donors*