Perioperative Challenges in Patients Transplanted with Livers from Extreme Obese Donors

Deepa Valvi, Diego Villagomez, Malay B. Shah, Xiaonan Mei, Meera Gupta, Alexandre Ancheta, Francesc Marti, Siddharth Desai, Karim Benrajab, Roberto Gedaly – 6 June 2021 – The combination of rising rates of obesity and the shortage of deceased donor livers have forced the consideration of marginal liver donors in terms of body mass index (BMI) for liver transplantation (LT). To date, there are still conflicting data on the impact of donor obesity on post‐LT outcomes.

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