Underestimation of chronic renal dysfunction after liver transplantation: ICEBERG study

Renal Dysfunction and Liver Transplantation

Liver transplantation, whether living donor (LDLT) or deceased donor (DDLT), is currently the treatment of choice for patients with advanced liver disease. While initially the focus was on acceptable short-term survival, currently the efforts are aimed at improving longterm prognosis. Thus, focus is now on the quality of life after liver transplantation, as well as prediction and management of ...

Adefovir- or Lamivudine-Induced Renal Tubular Dysfunction after Liver Transplantation

To reduce hepatitis B virus reinfection after liver transplantation (LT), patients often receive antihepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) alone or combined with antiviral nucleoside/nucleotide analogs (NUCs); however, proximal renal tubular dysfunction (RTD) that was induced by NUCs in liver recipients was rarely reported. Here, we analyzed RTD and renal impairment (RI) following adefovir (ADV) an...

Clinicopathological study of renal biopsies after liver transplantation.

OBJECTIVE To perform a clinicopathological study of patients having renal biopsies after liver transplantation. DESIGN Case series. SETTING; Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All post-liver transplantation patients who had a renal biopsy in the period from January 2000 to December 2010. RESULTS Eleven renal biopsies were retrieved for review from 10 patients with liver transplantat...

Renal dysfunction in chronic liver disease

Seizure disorders after renal Transplantation in children

Background and Objective: Some neurologic complications may be detected after renal transplantation in children including tremor, peripheral neuropathy, altered level of consciousness and seizure. The aim of our study was to detect the prevalence of seizure after renal transplantation and its risk factors in pediatric age groups. Methods: In this descriptive study, 102 patients 5-14 yea...