Gender Imbalance and the Relationship Between Living Donors and Recipients in Liver Transplantations in an Organ Transplant Center in Turkey
| Autor: | Ebru H. Ayvazoglu Soy, Ezgi Türkçelik, Ayşe Akın, Mehmet Haberal, Sare Mıhçıokur |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Turkey 030230 surgery Liver transplants Organ transplantation Donor Selection Hospitals University Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Age Distribution 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Living Donors medicine Humans Family Sex Distribution Young adult Child Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Transplantation Donor selection business.industry Significant difference Infant Newborn Gender distribution Infant Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged University hospital Transplant Recipients Liver Transplantation Treatment Outcome Child Preschool Female business |
| Zdroj: | Experimental and Clinical Transplantation. 17:131-134 |
| ISSN: | 1304-0855 |
| Popis: | Objectives Because of the scarcity of publications on gender differences and the relationship between living donors and recipients in liver transplant procedures, we carried out this study with the objective to examine the gender distribution of donors and recipients and the relationships between donors and recipients in living related-donor liver transplants performed in a university hospital in Ankara, Turkey. Materials and methods We retrospectively evaluated the data of 549 patients who underwent living related-donor and deceased-donor liver transplant procedures conducted in a university hospital between 1988 and 2017 and the 409 living donors. Results Males constituted 53.1% of the 409 living related liver donors and 63.6% of the living liver recipients. We found that 72.9% of the deceased-donor liver transplant recipients were also male. Of living related donors, 91.4% were blood relatives, with 74.8% being first-degree relatives. The most common donor-recipient relation was mother to son. Analyses of interspousal donations showed a significant difference between husband to wife and vice versa (7 vs 17; P Conclusions Most recipients and donors in living related-donor liver transplants were males with a young predominance. It is not known whether this might be related to biologic, psychologic, or socio cultural features of patients, gender issues, or economic factors. Further research with qualitative components on the influential factors, including gender, is needed. |
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