ALLMedicine™ Liver Transplants Center

Sep 2nd, 2021 - As the number of donation after circulatory death(DCD) liver transplants(LTs) performed in the United States continues to increase annually, there has been interest by policy makers to develop a more robust exception point safety net for patients ...

Aug 27th, 2021 - The model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) score was established for the allocation of liver transplants. The score is based on the medical laboratory parameters: bilirubin, creatinine and the international normalized ratio (INR). A verification ...

Aug 23rd, 2021 - Intraoperative bleeding during liver transplantation has been correlated with a higher risk of morbidity and mortality and decrease in patient and graft survival. Between January 2006 and December 2016 we performed 783 orthotopic liver transplants...

Aug 16th, 2021 - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) currently affects more than 25% of the world population and is rising. NAFLD can progress to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis that is associated with hepatic inflammation and fibrosis and can result in cirrho...

Aug 12th, 2021 - The efficacy of early allograft dysfunction (EAD) definitions in predicting post-transplant graft survival in a Chinese population is still unclear. A total of 607 orthotopic liver transplants (OLT) have been included in the current study. Model a...

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...

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% ...