Reply to: DCD consensus and futility in Liver Transplantation

We read with great interest the letter by Giorgakis et al[1], where authors discuss the allocation of livers obtained from donors after circulatory death (DCD) and comment on variations and terminology of risk factors in context with the recently presented UK-DCD-Risk-Score[2]. This novel prediction model, developed from the DCD cohort in the United Kingdom (UK), classifies DCD liver transplantations (LT) according to the overall donor and recipient risk. For example, livers from younger donors with a short functional donor warm ischemia (fDWIT) engrafted into low risk recipients with a few points in the Model-of-end-stage-liver-disease (MELD) system achieve excellent graft survival rates, given the cold ischemia time (CIT) is short (overall low risk group).
Source: Journal of Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research