History and aims
- Registry of all liver transplantation (LT) procedures in Europe
- Link between European LT Centers
- Scientific use and publications.
The idea of a European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR) was brought up at the meeting of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) in Munich, 1985. A group including the main liver transplant Centers decided to create the ELTR with the following objectives :
The hepatobiliary center of Paul Brousse Hospital (Villejuif, France) was designated to manage and analyse the data of ELTR since its creation. Two years later, ELTR had collected information on all LT recipients from 32 European centers (Lancet, 2 : 674, 1987) and since 1991 from 67 centers (Transplant Proc, 21 : 2383, 1991).
At the present time, nearly all the European centers (145 centers in 25 Countries) are participating to ELTR. Between 1968 and June 2009, the ELTR has collected data regarding 87964 LTs performed in Europe, including data on LT indication, donor (including living donors) and recipient blood group compatibility, technical aspects of LT, cause of death or graft failure and, initial and maintenance immunosuppression
