Liver transplant patients who receive organs from living donors more likely to survive than those who receive organs from deceased donors

Research derived from early national experience of liver transplantation has shown that deceased donor liver transplants offered recipients better survival rates than living donor liver transplants, making them the preferred method of transplantation for most physicians. Now, the first data-driven study in over a decade disputes this notion. Living donor transplant outcomes are superior to those found with deceased donors with appropriate donor selection and when surgeries are performed at an ex...