Articles tagged "Obesity"

2015 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Metabolic Syndrome and Prevalent Liver Disease on Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Pressing Need to Expand the Pool
W. Al-hamoudi,^1,2 F. Abaalkhail,² A. Bendahmash,¹ N. Allam,² N. Almasri,² H. Al-Bahili,² M. Al-Sebayel,² D. Broering,² H. Elsiesy.²
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; ²2Department of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Background and Aims: Organ shortage has been the ongoing obstacle to expand liver transplantation world-wide. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was hoped to improve this…