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Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

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01-03-2011 | Original article

Donor quality of life after living donor liver transplantation: a prospective study

Authors: Junichi Togashi, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Sumihito Tamura, Noriyo Yamashiki, Junichi Kaneko, Taku Aoki, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yoshifumi Beck, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Norihiro Kokudo

Published in: Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences | Issue 2/2011

Abstract

Background/purpose

It is important to determine the health-related quality of life of live donors in liver transplantation.

Materials and methods

We reviewed 35 live liver donors and prospectively and longitudinally evaluated their health-related quality for 1.5 years post-surgery based on the Short Form-36 version 2 questionnaire. Scores of the donors stratified by the clinical data were analyzed. The study was approved by the University of Tokyo Institutional Review Board (No. 1533).

Results

There was no donor mortality in the donor population studied. The percentage of major complications greater than Clavien’s classification grade III was 8.6%. The physical component summary score decreased to 42.9 (p < 0.01) at 3 months, but recovered within 6 months after the operation. The mental component summary scores did not change during the observation period. The stratification study revealed that age and postoperative complications remained significant factors among the high physical component summary scores 3 months after the operation.

Conclusions

The findings from this survey suggest that liver harvesting does not decrease the donor’s quality of life during the 1.5 years following the surgery.

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Title: Donor quality of life after living donor liver transplantation: a prospective study
Authors: Junichi Togashi
Yasuhiko Sugawara
Sumihito Tamura
Noriyo Yamashiki
Junichi Kaneko
Taku Aoki
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Yoshifumi Beck
Masatoshi Makuuchi
Norihiro Kokudo
Publication date: 01-03-2011
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published in: Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1868-6974
Electronic ISSN: 1868-6982
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00534-010-0340-y

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Donor quality of life after living donor liver transplantation: a prospective study

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