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LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 28, Issue 9, Pages 1490-1499Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/lt.26455
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This study examined the long-term health consequences of living liver donation and found that living liver donors had lower scores in physical functioning, role limitations, energy/fatigue, and bodily pain compared to non-donors. However, donors whose recipients received a liver transplant had higher scores on health-related quality of life measures.
Living donors are healthy individuals who are exposed to a major surgical procedure during which a major part of their liver is resected. Data on the long-term consequences of living liver donation are scarce. This study examined clinical, laboratory, and long-term health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 237 living liver donors and 239 matched controls during 48-168 months of postdonation follow-up. We used the 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36), version 1. The scores for the four following subscales were higher in nondonors than in donors: physical functioning (p = 0.009), role limitations due to physical health (p = 0.002), energy/fatigue (p < 0.001), and bodily pain (p < 0.001). The scores on the eight subscales of the SF-36 were higher in donors with living recipients than in donors whose recipients died (p < 0.001). Our results suggest that living donor right hepatectomy is safe and results in a postdonation HRQoL similar to that of nondonors in those donors whose recipients are healthy, whereas donors whose recipients die have a lower HRQoL that is significantly negatively correlated with the time since recipient death and improves over time.
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