Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 8.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Surg. 1966;2:295–370.

TABLE 3.

World Experience of Human Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

Case & Date* Donor-Recipient Blood Types Donor-Recipient Age & Sex Recipient Disease Cause of Donor Death Donor Death to Revascularization Survival Cause of Death
1. Denver (88–91) 3/1/63 A+ A+ 3 M 3 M Biliary artresia Cardiac arrest during craniotomy 420 min. 4 hours Operative hemorrhage
2. Denver (88–91) 5/5/63 A+ A+ 55 M 48 M Cirrhosis & hepatoma Terminal brain tumor 152 min. 22 days Pulmonary emboli
3. Denver (88–91) 6/24/63 O− O+ 69 M 67 M Cholangio carcinoma Storke 192 min. 7½ days Pulmonary emboli; GI bleeding
4. Denver (88–91) 7/16/63 O+ A− 73 M 52 M Cirrhosis & hepatoma Coronary 174 min. 6½ days Pulmonary emboli; congestive heart failure
5. Denver (88–91) 10/4/63 O+ O+ 64 M 29 F Cirrhosis & hepatoma GSW head (suicide) 164 min. 23 days Common duct necrosis; bile peritonitis; ? rejection with hepatic failure; hemorrhagic dilathesis
6. Moore (62, 63) 9/16/63 B+ A+ 35 M 58 M Metastatic colon carcinoma GSW head (homicide) 170 min. 11 days Pneumonitis; liver abscesses; hepatic failure
7. Demirleau (18) 1/64 O A 71 M 75 M Metastatic colon carcinoma Bilateral gangrene of legs 180 min. 3 hours Operative hemorrhage
*

Reference numbers in parentheses.