The disbalance between the number of candidates to liver transplant and the number of liver grafts leads to waiting list mortality. Two potential ways of increasing the number of liver grafts are split liver transplantation and the transplantation of grafts from non-heart beating donors. Both of them were discussed in a consensus meeting of the Spanish Society of Liver Transplantation in October 2012. This paper outlines the conclusions of that meeting.
Keywords: Asistolia controlada; Asistolia no controlada; Bipartición hepática; Controlled non-heart beating donor; Donación en asistolia; Liver transplantation; Non-heart beating donor; Split liver transplantation; Trasplante hepático; Uncontrolled non-heart beating donor.
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