Gustavo Rêgo Coelho

Centro de Transplante de Fígado do Ceará, Department of Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.

Biography

Liver transplantation has been accepted as a therapeutic option for patients with end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure. Currently, Brazil has a well-established public organ transplant program, performing 7,425 solid organs transplants in 2012 alone, among which 1,595 were liver transplants. Jehovah's Witnesses report 7,6 million members worldwide. For religious reasons they refuse transfusion of whole blood or its primary components (red cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelets).