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How do you counsel patients on the use of marginal organs and/or high risk donors who are on the liver transplant wait list?

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Hepatology · Mount Sinai Hospital

We have patients sign consents to accept HCV (+) donors or DCD after consultation with a transplant surgeon. However, we will probably be changing this practice with the advent and use of machine perfusion. More and more patients will be receiving such donor organs now and in the future, frankly, no...

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