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Case Reports
. 2021 Sep;52(3):1143-1147.
doi: 10.1007/s12029-021-00590-5. Epub 2021 Feb 18.

A Recipient and Donor Both Have COVID-19 Disease. Should We Perform a Liver Transplant?

Adem Tuncer  1 , Sami Akbulut  1   2 , Adil Baskiran  3 , Ezgi Erdal Karakas  4 , Deniz Yavuz Baskiran  2 , Brian Carr  1 , Sezai Yilmaz  1
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A Recipient and Donor Both Have COVID-19 Disease. Should We Perform a Liver Transplant?

Adem Tuncer et al. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a new infectious disease that continues to spread globally. There is growing concern about donor-induced transmission of Coronavirus 2 (SARS -CoV-2). For liver transplantation, the COVID-19 PCR test is routine, in addition to epidemiological history and clinical and radiological examination 24-48 h before surgery. One of the liver transplant candidates was found to be infected with COVID-19, as well as the planned donor candidate. Since COVID-19 will be a high-risk operation for both the recipient and the donor, the operation was postponed by giving medical treatment. After the treatment and quarantine process was over, the patient and the donor then had a negative COVID-19 PCR test and the patient received a living donor liver transplant. We present a case of donor and recipient who initially both tested positive for COVID-19. This liver transplantation scenario has not previously been reported in the literature.

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Preoperative thoracic CT section of the recipient
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Preoperative thoracic CT section of the donor
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Donor postoperative thoracic CT section. Postoperative thoracic CT section of the recipient on the right
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Postoperative thoracic CT section of the recipient
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