Analysis of the Trend Over Time of High-Urgency Liver Transplantation Requests in Italy in the 4-Year Period 2014-2017

摘要

Background. The national protocol for the handling of high-urgency (HU) liver organ procurement for transplant is administered by the Italian National Transplant Center. In recent years, we have witnessed a change in requests to access the program. We have therefore evaluated their temporal trend, the need to change the access criteria, the percentage of transplants performed, the time of request satisfaction, and the follow-up.