Extrahepatic malignancies in a liver transplant recipient from a living related donor

The International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient Guideline

Nepalese kidney transplant recipient in a follow up clinic: related and unrelated living donor.

A cohort retrospective study was conducted on all follow up kidney transplant recipients at Transplant Follow up Clinic from June 16, 2003 to July 15, 2008. The main objective of this study was to find out the demographic pattern of the kidney transplant recipients and type of donors. Among 452 recipients, the transplantation were done in India (449), Germany (2) and in the USA (1) with male to...

The International Liver Transplantation Society Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient Guideline

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been increasingly embraced around the world as an important strategy to address the shortage of deceased donor livers. The aim of this guideline, approved by the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), is to provide a collection of expert opinions, consensus, and best practices surrounding LDLT. Recommendations were developed from an ana...

Negative prognostic impact of renal replacement therapy in adult living-donor liver transplant recipients: preoperative recipient condition and donor factors.

BACKGROUND In deceased-donor liver transplantation settings, post-transplantation acute renal failure with the induction of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is known to have negative effects on graft and patient survivals. However, the impact of RRT in living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has not been well investigated. The aim of this study was to elucidate risk factors requiring RRT and p...

A successful deceased-donor liver transplant program is not a prerequisite for a living-donor program.

The Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) permitting transplantation of organs from brain-dead individuals was passed by the Indian parliament in 1994. In the 12 years since, only approximately 100 deceased-donor liver transplants (DDLT) have been performed in 18 centers countrywide. As per the Western liver transplant rates of 15-20 per million population (USA, UK), the number of patients requirin...