ALLMedicine Liver Transplants Center

May 24th, 2020 - Acute kidney injury (AKI) after liver transplantation is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. It remains controversial whether the choice of vena cava reconstruction technique impacts AKI. This is a single-center retrospective cohort...

May 24th, 2020 - To evaluate the effective doses received by donors and recipients, identify effective dose contributions, and make risk assessments. It was a retrospective study. 100 Donors and 100 recipients were enrolled with an operative day from March 2016 to...

May 21st, 2020 - Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation is associated with higher rates of graft loss. In this paper, we explored whether the Model for Early Allograft Function (MEAF) predicted outcome in DCD liver transplantation. We perform...

May 19th, 2020 - Background: Bacterial infections are a common complication after liver transplantation. Usually, abdominal drains are placed at the end of the surgical procedure. The usefulness of routine drain tip culture has not been investigated. Patients and ...

May 17th, 2020 - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) accounts for 10-15% of orthotopic liver transplants (OLTs) in the UK. Index presentations with cirrhotic decompensation represent missed opportunities for preventive treatment leaving OLT or palliation as ...

Dec 31st, 2012 - Liver disease is the twelfth commonest cause of mortality in adults in the United States, resulting in 34,000 deaths annually from cirrhosis. 7 In addition, the rising incidence of HCC in the United States is reflected in an increasing number of de.

May 24th, 2020 - Acute kidney injury (AKI) after liver transplantation is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. It remains controversial whether the choice of vena cava reconstruction technique impacts AKI. This is a single-center retrospective cohort...

May 24th, 2020 - To evaluate the effective doses received by donors and recipients, identify effective dose contributions, and make risk assessments. It was a retrospective study. 100 Donors and 100 recipients were enrolled with an operative day from March 2016 to...

May 21st, 2020 - Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation is associated with higher rates of graft loss. In this paper, we explored whether the Model for Early Allograft Function (MEAF) predicted outcome in DCD liver transplantation. We perform...

May 19th, 2020 - Background: Bacterial infections are a common complication after liver transplantation. Usually, abdominal drains are placed at the end of the surgical procedure. The usefulness of routine drain tip culture has not been investigated. Patients and ...

May 18th, 2020 - Tacrolimus capsule is a calcineurin-inhibitor immunosuppressant indicated for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in patients receiving allogeneic liver, kidney or heart transplants, in combination with other immunosuppressants. (1.1) Tacrolimus ca...

May 11th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sharp drop in organ transplantation in the United States and France, a new report in The Lancet shows. From late February to early April, deceased donor transplantations fell by 51.1% ...

Apr 1st, 2020 - In liver transplant recipients or patients with autoimmune hepatitis on immunosuppressive therapy, acute cellular rejection or disease flare should not be presumed in the face of active coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to the America.

Dec 16th, 2019 - (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday all combinations of its three drugs to treat NASH were unsuccessful in a mid-stage study, the latest failure in a string of trials seeking to develop the first approved treatment for the fatty liver d...

Nov 6th, 2019 - Liver transplant for the three predominant autoimmune liver diseases – primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis – has been known to have favorable outcomes overall, but little evidence comparing cholang.

Jun 19th, 2019 - (Reuters Health) - Lack of knowledge among community physicians may be keeping them from raising the possibility of living donor transplants with their patients with liver disease, new survey data suggest. And misperceptions among the general publ...