ALLMedicine™ Liver Transplants Center

Jul 31st, 2021 - With the COVID-19 pandemic, managing the process of solid organ transplantation has become a significant matter for transplant centers. In this study, we report our experiences on evaluating the effects of COVID-19 in patients with recent liver tr...

Jul 11th, 2021 - In 2020, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted global health, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. The liver injury appears to be one of the possi...

Jun 24th, 2021 - High-risk combinations of recipient and graft characteristics are poorly defined for liver retransplantation (reLT) in the current era. We aimed to develop a risk model for survival after reLT using data from the European Liver Transplantation Reg...

Jun 20th, 2021 - Blastomycosis is a fungal infection caused primarily by Blastomyces dermatitis. The fungus is endemic to the Ohio, Mississippi, and St. Lawrence River areas of the United States. Organ transplant recipients are at risk of blastomycosis due to phar...

Jun 16th, 2021 - Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are increasingly used worldwide for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and to prevent or treat venous thromboembolism. In situations such as serious bleeding, the need for urgent surger...

Oct 17th, 2017 - The anesthesia community has openly debated if the care of transplant patients was generalist or specialist care ever since the publication of an opinion paper in 1999 recommended subspecialty training in the field of liver transplantation anesthe...

Mar 19th, 2020 - People who have liver transplants must take anti-rejection medication (immunosuppression) for the rest of their lives. If they stop, their immune system may reject the transplanted liver. All anti-rejection medications have side effects. Because o...

Apr 17th, 2019 - Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been increasing worldwide due to the critical shortage of cadaveric donors and the rising number of patients awaiting liver transplantation. The long-term survival rates of LDLT are now comparable to t...

Dec 7th, 2018 - The outcome of liver transplantation (LT) in the presence of moderate to severe POPH is significantly poor with a 50% reported mortality rate in LT recipients having a mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) >35 mmHg and 100% when the mPAP is greate...

Oct 24th, 2018 - The current standard for biopsy-based diagnoses of dysfunction of liver transplants is histology (the Banff system), an arbitrary international empirical consensus based on lesions and rules, similar in principle to the kidney, heart, and lung his...

Aug 9th, 2018 - Rationale: The aim of this study was to compare predictive equations with indirect calorimetry and identify the appropriate energy expenditure requirement of liver transplant(LT) recipients in South Korea. Methods: This prospective observational s...

Jun 30th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the health of patients with liver disease worldwide, researchers say. Not only does liver disease make people m...

Jun 23rd, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Patients who have received liver transplants or have advanced liver fibrosis may not get adequate protection against COVID-19 from two doses of th...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Liver-related deaths declined and liver transplant waitlist inequities decreased in states that implemented Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), results of an innovative study showed. About 1 year after Medicaid expansion began ...

Aug 20th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most patients will develop liver fibrosis after their Fontan procedure, and many will require heart-liver transplants, according to a new review. "Fontan-associated liver disease (FALD) is underdiagnosed," Dr. Juliet Em...

May 12th, 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% ...