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Since Starzl performed the world’s first deceased-donor liver transplant in 1963, more than 6,000 deceased-donor liver transplants have been performed annually in the USA. There, as in other parts of the world, the biggest problem with liver transplants is the unequivocal shortage of donors. In response, countries mostly in Europe and the USA have explored extended criteria donors (ECD), which include elderly donors and donors with a fatty liver. This paper describes the current state of and problems with these ECD.

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    Masahiko Taniguchi & Hiroyuki Furukawa

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  1. Department of Surgery and Clinical Research Center, Chiba-East National Hospital,, Chiba, Japan

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  2. Department of Therapeutics for End-Stage Organ Dysfunction, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

    Norihide Fukushima

  3. Department of Organ Transplant Surgery, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan

    Takashi Kenmochi

  4. Division for Innovative Surgery and Transplantation, National Center for Child Health and Development, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Taniguchi, M., Furukawa, H. (2014). ECD for Adult Liver Transplantation. In: Asano, T., Fukushima, N., Kenmochi, T., Matsuno, N. (eds) Marginal Donors. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54484-5_11

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