| News From Transplant Week of April 7, 2002 / Vol. 3 No. 14 |
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Pomfret: Some Potential Living Liver Donors Having Second Thoughts |
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Potential living donors may be increasingly having second thoughts about giving parts of their livers as questions arise about the safety of the "living donor" transplant operation in the wake of a donor's death at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Elizabeth Pomfret, a transplant surgeon, said she has seen a noticeable decline in the number of living liver donors at Lahey Clinic, New England's largest liver transplant program. "We had one brother-to-brother transplant cancel," Pomfret said. "The donor backed out." While Pomfret said Lahey has performed 52 living donor liver transplants with no donor deaths, she said complications occur for the donor in 30 percent of these complex operations. Pomfret said surgeons at Lahey carefully go over all the possible risks with potential donors, but said some transplant programs tend to gloss over the seriousness of the operation. Other sources: Boston Herald |
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