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Abstract
As the shortage of donor organs for liver transplantation has worsened over the past few years, efforts to expand the donor pool have intensified. One of the most effective means to allocate a liver graft to a sick recipient is adult-adult right hepatic lobe living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).
Because an increasing number of LDLTs are performed, all aspects of donor outcomes must be measured to determine the impact of donation on the living liver transplant donor. The most important outcome is donor morbidity and mortality.
Another important aspect of donor outcome is the impact of the donation on the quality of life of the donor. The donor is by definition a healthy person without significant medical problems. Consequently, symptoms or postdonation complications that affect donor quality of life are especially important to record and understand.
The scientists drew attention to the stress placed on the transplant physicians, torn between wanting the best for the potential recipient and a duty towards the potential donor, who would receive no medical benefit and might even suffer harm.
from these data we concluded the importance of studying the impact of living donor liver transplantation on the actual donors psychosocial well being and the psychological distress. By knowing these complications the full extent of post-transplantation psychiatric problems could be identified, and those individuals could be treated. In addition, risk factors for psychiatric or psychological complications may be identified so that methods to reduce or avoid these problems could be implemented in future donors.
We designed this longitudinal, prospective study in order to investigate the psychiatric morbidity of the liver transplant donors in a sample recruited from the the Liver Transplantation Unit- in Ain Shams University Specialized hospital, Wadi El-Nil hospital and Egypt Air hospital.