TY  - JOUR
TI  - Coronavirus Precautions: Experience of High Volume Liver 
Transplant Institute
AB  - Background: To present the struggle of a high volume liver transplant center against coronavirus infectious disease-2019 pandemic.
Methods: Between March 2020 and December 2020, the demographic and clinical data of staff and liver transplant candidates diagnosed with coronavirus infectious disease-2019 in our Liver Transplant Institute were prospectively analyzed.
Results: First, 32 healthcare staff were diagnosed with coronavirus infectious disease-2019, and 6 of them were surgeons. Six staff 
were asymptomatic, while 24 staff had mild or moderate and 2 staff had severe coronavirus infectious disease-2019. All the staff 
recovered from the disease without any permanent sequela and returned to duty after 2 consecutive negative polymerase chain reaction results within 24-hour intervals. Second, during the preoperative investigation, 6 living liver donor candidates and 13 recipients 
were tested positive for coronavirus infectious disease-2019 (son = 6, unrelated = 3, cousin = 3, daughter = 2, cadaveric = 1). Eleven 
patients received favipiravir and 8 did not receive any treatment because they were asymptomatic. Only one recipient who had severe 
coronavirus infectious disease-2019 died due to multiple organ failure syndrome. One recipient died in the early postoperative period. 
The median duration from the initial diagnosis of the patients till the transplant procedure was 21 days (min-max: 14-105 days). During 
the time of operation, the polymerase chain reaction tests of the donors and the recipients were negative, and the thorax tomography 
images showed no signs of viral pneumonia.
Conclusion: Meticulous precautions, multidisciplinary approach, team effort, and organization of facilities can increase the quality of 
care of these patients in the coronavirus infectious disease-2019 era. Healthcare workers have shown tremendous effort and are the 
true heroes of this era.
AU  - Baskiran, Adil
AU  - Yilmaz, Sezai
AU  - SAHIN, TEVFIK TOLGA
AU  - Tunçer, Adem
AU  - kaplan, kuntay
AU  - BAYINDIR, Yasar
AU  - Akbulut, Sami
DO  - 10.5152/tjg.2022.21748
PY  - 2022
JO  - Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
VL  - 33
IS  - 2
SN  - 1300-4948
SP  - 145
EP  - 152
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/524298
ER  -