Regional and national variation in donor and recipient characteristics, transplant practice, and outcomes after liver transplantation (the IMPROVEMENT collaborative): a multicentre cohort study

Alfonso W. Avolio, Marco M. Pascale, Quirino Lai, Patrizia Burra, Umberto Cillo, Kristopher P. Croome, Martin De Santibanes, Hiroto Egawa, Mikel M. Gastaca, Zhiyong Guo, Paulo N. Martins, Gabriel C. Oniscu, Wojciech G. Polak, Cristiano Quintini, Mohamed Rela, Gonzalo Sapisochin, Julio C. Wiederkehr, Umberto Baccarani, Deniz Balci, Louise A. Barbier, Ilka de Fatima Santana Ferreira Boin, Felix Braun, Lucio Caccamo, Amedeo Carraro, Matteo Cescon, Zhishui Chen, Olga Ciccarelli, Luciano G. De Carlis, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Burcin Ekser, Giuseppe M. Ettorre, Deng Feiwen, Davide Ghinolfi, Michal J. Grat, Salvatore Gruttadauria, Subhash Gupta, John Hammond, Xiaoshun He, Zemin Hu, Takashi Ito, Sunhawit Junrungsee, Mickael Lesurtel, Laura Llado, Jean Y. Mabrut, Daniel Maluf, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Gilberto A. Mejia, Artem Monakhov, Silvio Nadalin, Brian M. Nguyen, Nghia Q. Nguyen, Bunthoon Noonthasoot, Madhukar S. Patel, Thamara Perera, Marcos V. Perini, Domenico Pinelli, Carlo Pulitano, Renato Romagnoli, Massimo Rossi, Ephrem Salame, Surendran Sudhindran, Francesco Tandoi, Timucin Taner, Giuliano Testa, Giovanni Vennarecci, Marco Vivarelli, Zhi-Jun Zhu, Elisa Schirra, Roberta Angelico, Massimo Arcerito, Giammauro Berardi, Bo Yang, Mikhail Boldyrev, Eliano Bonaccorsi-Riani, Marco Bongini, Jessica Bronzoni, Petru Bucur, Stefania Camagni, Francesca Caputo, Daniela Caracciolo, Christopher S. Chandler, Davide Chiappori, Giulia Cirillo, Lorenzo Cocchi, Joris Couillerot, Michael Crawford, Dang Hai Do, Elaine C. Ataide, Femke H.C. De Goeij, Andrea Della Penna, Riccardo De Carlis, Jeroen De Jonge, Rajesh Dey, Nicola De Stefano, Stefano Di Sandro, Daniele Dondossola, Emanuele Felli, Daniele Ferraro, Michael Fink, Michele Finotti, Marta Garcia-Guix, Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran, Jan-Paul Gundlach, Amar Gupta, Amanda Habermann, Robert Jones, Noah Kelleher, Elvan O. Kirimker, Maciej Krasnodębski, Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy, Emilia Kruk, Shekhar A. Kubal, Jacopo Lanari, Andrea Lauterio, Ian Leipnitz, Songming Li, Andrew Massutti, Fabio Melandro, Luca Miele, Isabel Miglior, Stephanie B.C. Nguyen, Duilio Pagano, Tommaso Partipilo, Damiano Patrono, Niv Pencovich, Arkaitz Perfecto-Valero, Jai Prasadh, Riccardo Pravisani, Ashwin Rammohan, Maria E. Ramos, Matteo Ravaioli, Maria Rendina, Roberta Rossi, Rebeca Sanabria-Mateos, Saraswathy Sivaprasadan, Patrizia Silvestri, Gabriele Spoletini, Li-Ying Sun, Qiang Sun, Asara Thepbunchonchai, Luca Toti, Yoichiro Uchida, Jimmy W. Uno-Tala, Mathias V.A. Vidgren, Paola Violi, Athaya Vorasittha, Claire A. West, Lapisatepun Worakitti, Liu Ying, Gloria Zaffaroni, Diana Giannarelli, Tina Pasciuto, Vatche G. Agopian

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@article{allodium:10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101889,
title = {Regional and national variation in donor and recipient characteristics, transplant practice, and outcomes after liver transplantation (the IMPROVEMENT collaborative): a multicentre cohort study},
author = {Alfonso W. Avolio and Marco M. Pascale and Quirino Lai and Patrizia Burra and Umberto Cillo and Kristopher P. Croome and Martin De Santibanes and Hiroto Egawa and Mikel M. Gastaca and Zhiyong Guo and Paulo N. Martins and Gabriel C. Oniscu and Wojciech G. Polak and Cristiano Quintini and Mohamed Rela and Gonzalo Sapisochin and Julio C. Wiederkehr and Umberto Baccarani and Deniz Balci and Louise A. Barbier and Ilka de Fatima Santana Ferreira Boin and Felix Braun and Lucio Caccamo and Amedeo Carraro and Matteo Cescon and Zhishui Chen and Olga Ciccarelli and Luciano G. De Carlis and Fabrizio Di Benedetto and Burcin Ekser and Giuseppe M. Ettorre and Deng Feiwen and Davide Ghinolfi and Michal J. Grat and Salvatore Gruttadauria and Subhash Gupta and John Hammond and Xiaoshun He and Zemin Hu and Takashi Ito and Sunhawit Junrungsee and Mickael Lesurtel and Laura Llado and Jean Y. Mabrut and Daniel Maluf and Vincenzo Mazzaferro and Gilberto A. Mejia and Artem Monakhov and Silvio Nadalin and Brian M. Nguyen and Nghia Q. Nguyen and Bunthoon Noonthasoot and Madhukar S. Patel and Thamara Perera and Marcos V. Perini and Domenico Pinelli and Carlo Pulitano and Renato Romagnoli and Massimo Rossi and Ephrem Salame and Surendran Sudhindran and Francesco Tandoi and Timucin Taner and Giuliano Testa and Giovanni Vennarecci and Marco Vivarelli and Zhi-Jun Zhu and Elisa Schirra and Roberta Angelico and Massimo Arcerito and Giammauro Berardi and Bo Yang and Mikhail Boldyrev and Eliano Bonaccorsi-Riani and Marco Bongini and Jessica Bronzoni and Petru Bucur and Stefania Camagni and Francesca Caputo and Daniela Caracciolo and Christopher S. Chandler and Davide Chiappori and Giulia Cirillo and Lorenzo Cocchi and Joris Couillerot and Michael Crawford and Dang Hai Do and Elaine C. Ataide and Femke H.C. De Goeij and Andrea Della Penna and Riccardo De Carlis and Jeroen De Jonge and Rajesh Dey and Nicola De Stefano and Stefano Di Sandro and Daniele Dondossola and Emanuele Felli and Daniele Ferraro and Michael Fink and Michele Finotti and Marta Garcia-Guix and Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran and Jan-Paul Gundlach and Amar Gupta and Amanda Habermann and Robert Jones and Noah Kelleher and Elvan O. Kirimker and Maciej Krasnodębski and Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy and Emilia Kruk and Shekhar A. Kubal and Jacopo Lanari and Andrea Lauterio and Ian Leipnitz and Songming Li and Andrew Massutti and Fabio Melandro and Luca Miele and Isabel Miglior and Stephanie B.C. Nguyen and Duilio Pagano and Tommaso Partipilo and Damiano Patrono and Niv Pencovich and Arkaitz Perfecto-Valero and Jai Prasadh and Riccardo Pravisani and Ashwin Rammohan and Maria E. Ramos and Matteo Ravaioli and Maria Rendina and Roberta Rossi and Rebeca Sanabria-Mateos and Saraswathy Sivaprasadan and Patrizia Silvestri and Gabriele Spoletini and Li-Ying Sun and Qiang Sun and Asara Thepbunchonchai and Luca Toti and Yoichiro Uchida and Jimmy W. Uno-Tala and Mathias V.A. Vidgren and Paola Violi and Athaya Vorasittha and Claire A. West and Lapisatepun Worakitti and Liu Ying and Gloria Zaffaroni and Diana Giannarelli and Tina Pasciuto and Vatche G. Agopian},
year = {2026},
journal = {The Lancet Regional Health - Europe},
doi = {10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101889},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101889}
}

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AU  - Marta Garcia-Guix
AU  - Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran
AU  - Jan-Paul Gundlach
AU  - Amar Gupta
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AU  - Maciej Krasnodębski
AU  - Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy
AU  - Emilia Kruk
AU  - Shekhar A. Kubal
AU  - Jacopo Lanari
AU  - Andrea Lauterio
AU  - Ian Leipnitz
AU  - Songming Li
AU  - Andrew Massutti
AU  - Fabio Melandro
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AU  - Isabel Miglior
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AU  - Damiano Patrono
AU  - Niv Pencovich
AU  - Arkaitz Perfecto-Valero
AU  - Jai Prasadh
AU  - Riccardo Pravisani
AU  - Ashwin Rammohan
AU  - Maria E. Ramos
AU  - Matteo Ravaioli
AU  - Maria Rendina
AU  - Roberta Rossi
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APA

Avolio, A. W., Pascale, M. M., Lai, Q., Burra, P., Cillo, U., Croome, K. P., Santibanes, M. D., Egawa, H., Gastaca, M. M., Guo, Z., Martins, P. N., Oniscu, G. C., Polak, W. G., Quintini, C., Rela, M., Sapisochin, G., Wiederkehr, J. C., Baccarani, U., Balci, D., Barbier, L. A., Boin, I. D. F. S. F., Braun, F., Caccamo, L., Carraro, A., Cescon, M., Chen, Z., Ciccarelli, O., Carlis, L. G. D., Benedetto, F. D., Ekser, B., Ettorre, G. M., Feiwen, D., Ghinolfi, D., Grat, M. J., Gruttadauria, S., Gupta, S., Hammond, J., He, X., Hu, Z., Ito, T., Junrungsee, S., Lesurtel, M., Llado, L., Mabrut, J. Y., Maluf, D., Mazzaferro, V., Mejia, G. A., Monakhov, A., Nadalin, S., Nguyen, B. M., Nguyen, N. Q., Noonthasoot, B., Patel, M. S., Perera, T., Perini, M. V., Pinelli, D., Pulitano, C., Romagnoli, R., Rossi, M., Salame, E., Sudhindran, S., Tandoi, F., Taner, T., Testa, G., Vennarecci, G., Vivarelli, M., Zhu, Z., Schirra, E., Angelico, R., Arcerito, M., Berardi, G., Yang, B., Boldyrev, M., Bonaccorsi-Riani, E., Bongini, M., Bronzoni, J., Bucur, P., Camagni, S., Caputo, F., Caracciolo, D., Chandler, C. S., Chiappori, D., Cirillo, G., Cocchi, L., Couillerot, J., Crawford, M., Do, D. H., Ataide, E. C., Goeij, F. H. D., Penna, A. D., Carlis, R. D., Jonge, J. D., Dey, R., Stefano, N. D., Sandro, S. D., Dondossola, D., Felli, E., Ferraro, D., Fink, M., Finotti, M., Garcia-Guix, M., Gunasekaran, V., Gundlach, J., Gupta, A., Habermann, A., Jones, R., Kelleher, N., Kirimker, E. O., Krasnodębski, M., Krishnamurthy, J., Kruk, E., Kubal, S. A., Lanari, J., Lauterio, A., Leipnitz, I., Li, S., Massutti, A., Melandro, F., Miele, L., Miglior, I., Nguyen, S. B., Pagano, D., Partipilo, T., Patrono, D., Pencovich, N., Perfecto-Valero, A., Prasadh, J., Pravisani, R., Rammohan, A., Ramos, M. E., Ravaioli, M., Rendina, M., Rossi, R., Sanabria-Mateos, R., Sivaprasadan, S., Silvestri, P., Spoletini, G., Sun, L., Sun, Q., Thepbunchonchai, A., Toti, L., Uchida, Y., Uno-Tala, J. W., Vidgren, M. V., Violi, P., Vorasittha, A., West, C. A., Worakitti, L., Ying, L., Zaffaroni, G., Giannarelli, D., Pasciuto, T., & Agopian, V. G. (2026). Regional and national variation in donor and recipient characteristics, transplant practice, and outcomes after liver transplantation (the IMPROVEMENT collaborative): a multicentre cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2026.101889

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