Table 3.

Worldwide Review on Living Liver Donor Mortality Divided in Early (Postoperative) and Late Mortality

f, female; m, male; LS, lateral segment; LL, left lobe; RL, right lobe; LTx, liver transplantation.

^*Certainty (C) level based on the source of information

C1, Donor death documented, confirmed, and published in the medical literature by an author representing the transplant center where the fatality occurred; evidence based on direct information; details of the case often provided, e.g., donor age, sex, graft type, date of surgery, cause of death, date of death, survival; C2, Donor death not clearly identified, confirmed or published by transplant center where the fatality occurred; transplant center usually not identified; indirect evidence obtained from secondary publications by other authors or reviews; eventually some information about the case provided; C3, Donor death not identified, confirmed or published; transplant center not identified; evidence based on verbal presentation or personal communication; no further details of the case provided.

Reprinted from Ringe B, Strong RW. The dilemma of living liver donor death: to report or not to report? Transplantation 2008;85:790-793.