Understanding Depression and Anxiety in Living Liver Donors
The following is a summary of “Prevalence and factors associated with depression and anxiety in...
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HCC: Waitlisted Living-Liver Donor Recipients Reap Survival Benefits
Intention-to-treat survival significantly improved in HCC patients waiting for a potential living...
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Lifestyle modification leads to spatially variable reduction in hepatic steatosis in potential live liver donors.
The spatial variability of hepatic fat reduction in potential living liver donors with hepatic...
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Liver Grafts Feasible From Hep C-Positive Donors After Circulatory Death
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Liver grafts from hepatitis C virus-positive...
Read MoreImproving value delivery in living donor kidney transplant through process improvement.
Living donor kidney evaluation has substantial time variations with significant intercenter variation. One-day donor evaluation has shown to be clinically efficient and improve transplant rates. However, patients’...
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Optimizing Liver Transplantation Success with Routine End-Ischemic HOPE from Brain-Dead Donors
The following is a summary of “Routine End-ischemic Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion in...
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Disparities Influence Outcomes in Live Donor Liver Transplants
Known disparities related to race and sex in deceased donor liver transplantation also appear to influence live donor liver transplantation.
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High-Risk Patients Awaiting Liver Transplant Benefit Most From Living Donors
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — High-risk cirrhosis patients awaiting liver...
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High-MELD Living-Donor Liver Transplants Show Comparable Outcomes
High-MELD living-donor liver transplants show acceptable outcomes, similar to deceased-donor transplants, offering hope for reducing donor shortages.
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Assessing Heparin Therapy Impact on Graft Survival for Kidney and Liver Recipients from Deceased Donors
The following is a summary of “Impact of Heparin Therapy in Deceased Donors on Early Graft...
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[Simultaneous living donor liver transplantation and pancreatoduodenectomy for an extensive cholangiocarcinoma with primary sclerosing cholangitis: a case report].
The treatment of choice for a resectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma is hepatectomy. Alternative...
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Single-Center Experience in Managing Right Liver Grafts From Trifurcation or Independent Right Posterior Portal Vein in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
The right liver graft has sometimes been from the trifurcation portal vein (TPV) or independent...
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A Single-Center’s Early Surgical Outcomes of Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has become an increasingly common surgical option...
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Thrombectomized autologous portal Y-graft inflow construction can be an option in living-donor liver transplantation: a case report.
In living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), portal Y-graft interposition using the...
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Expanding the living donor pool using domino liver transplantation: a systematic review.
To this day, a discrepancy exists between donor liver demand and supply. Domino liver...
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Use of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation Low in U.S., U.K., Canada
TUESDAY, Oct. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Utilization of living-donor liver transplantation...
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Living-Donor Liver Transplant Promising for CRC With Liver Mets
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For select patients with liver-confined,...
Read MoreKidney donor profile index and post-transplant health care utilization: implications for value of transplant care delivery.
Centers discard high kidney donor profile index (KDPI) allografts, potentially related to delayed graft function and prolonged hospital use by kidney transplant recipients (KTR). We sought to determine whether high KDPI KTRs...
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HOPE in Action: A Prospective Multicenter Pilot Study of Liver Transplantation from Donors with HIV to Recipients with HIV.
Liver transplantation (LT) from donors-with-HIV to recipients-with-HIV (HIV D+/R+) is permitted...
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Microscope-Assisted Arterial Anastomosis in Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Outcomes.
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has expanded the availability of liver transplant but...
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