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01-01-2004 | Letter to the Editors

Re-use of a liver graft and multi-organ procurement from a liver transplant patient

Authors: François R. Pruvot, Didier Roumilhac, Sébastien Dharancy, Patricia Lambotte, Antoine Auboiron, Luc Gambiez, Olivier Jegaden, Nicole Declerck

Published in: Transplant International | Issue 1/2004

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Dear Editors: Re-use of a liver graft with satisfactory results has been reported previously [1, 2, 3, 4]. Liver procurement from the transplant patient was associated with kidney procurement in one case [2] and with cardiac procurement in another (J. Lerut et al., unpublished observation). Herein we report the first case of heart-and-lung procurement together with re-use of a freshly transplanted liver from a young brain-dead woman following liver transplantation for acetaminophen-induced acute hepatic failure. …

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Title: Re-use of a liver graft and multi-organ procurement from a liver transplant patient
Authors: François R. Pruvot
Didier Roumilhac
Sébastien Dharancy
Patricia Lambotte
Antoine Auboiron
Luc Gambiez
Olivier Jegaden
Nicole Declerck
Publication date: 01-01-2004
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Transplant International / Issue 1/2004
Print ISSN: 0934-0874
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00147-003-0629-8

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