ALLMedicine™ Liver Transplants Center

Aug 12th, 2022 - 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...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Background and objectives: Coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19), linked to the SARS-Cov-2 virus, is rapidly spreading worldwide. After the city of Wuhan and the province of Hubei, European healthcare systems are facing an outbreak of seriously il...

Aug 8th, 2022 - Severe alcoholic hepatitis is defined as alcoholic hepatitis patients having discriminant function (DF) score over 32 or accompanying hepatic encephalopathy. These patients have shown poor prognosis of 28 day mortality as 30 to 50% without treatme...

Aug 7th, 2022 - A safe, reproducible and standardized surgical technique for intestinal procurement and transplantation from a living donor (LD) was introduced in 1997 and has been used in the majority of cases since. The key principles are: 1. procurement of 180...

Aug 4th, 2022 - Despite the acceptance of living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) as a lifesaving procedure for end-stage liver disease, it remains underused in the United States. Quantification of lifetime survival benefit and the Model for End-stage Liver Disease ...

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...

Aug 12th, 2022 - 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...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Background and objectives: Coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19), linked to the SARS-Cov-2 virus, is rapidly spreading worldwide. After the city of Wuhan and the province of Hubei, European healthcare systems are facing an outbreak of seriously il...

Aug 8th, 2022 - Severe alcoholic hepatitis is defined as alcoholic hepatitis patients having discriminant function (DF) score over 32 or accompanying hepatic encephalopathy. These patients have shown poor prognosis of 28 day mortality as 30 to 50% without treatme...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Registry infrastructure: The proposed registry is a multicenter prospective registry that is designed to capture perioperative DAPT management strategies in patients undergoing NCS or CS post-PCI. It will be adjudicated and monitored for data accu...

Jul 6th, 2022 - To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the OCS™ Liver to preserve, optimize the condition and assess livers from DCD donors that currently are seldom used for liver transplants due to limitations of cold static storage with extended warm isch...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Researchers have discovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease and a potential way to reverse the process. They found that elevated blood levels of homocysteine correlate strongly with the severity of nonalcoholic st...

Jul 13th, 2022 - While two new studies reiterate a possible relationship between adenovirus 41 and acute hepatitis of unknown cause in children, whether these infections are significant or merely bystanders remains unclear. In both studies — one conducted in Alaba...

Jun 24th, 2022 - A new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides further details on mysterious cases of pediatric hepatitis identified across the United States. While 45% percent of patients have tested positive for adenovirus inf...

Jun 16th, 2022 - June 16, 2022 – There may be a link between the recent unexplained cases of hepatitis in children and prior coronavirus infections, according to new research from Israel. A new study details five children in Israel who had mild cases of COVID-19 w...

Jun 15th, 2022 - The number of pediatric hepatitis cases has remained steady since 2017, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests, despite the recent investigation into children with hepatitis of unknown cause. The study also...