A 48-year-old Australian man of European ancestry received his third liver transplant in February 2013 for hepatic failure precipitated by ischaemic cholangiopathy and secondary biliary cirrhosis. His first liver transplant was performed 10 years earlier for complications of cirrhosis arising from autoimmune hepatitis – primary sclerosing cholangitis overlap syndrome, but required retransplanta...

OBJECTIVE Much of the related researches have reported the correlation between renal transplantation and different tumors in the post transplant recipients. However, there are not exact essays revealed that renal transplantation is definite causation for liver carcinoma, thus we systematically evaluated the association between renal transplantation and the risk of liver carcinoma in this meta-a...

OBJECTIVES Hepatitis C virus infection has a 10.5% frequency in liver transplant posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Studies have suggested that hepatitis C virus infection plays a role in developing posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Pooling data of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders developing in liver recipients from the literature, we analyzed and compared cha...

Organ shortages present a problem for liver transplant. Use of traumatized livers could be a way of expanding the donor pool. We report the case of a liver transplant we did in which we used a deeply lacerated liver obtained from a donor, previously treated with a super-selective embolization of segment VI-VII arterial branches to control bleeding. At the back table, the lacerations were repair...

OBJECTIVES Acute liver failure is a life-threatening condition with sudden onset liver injury, decreased liver functions, hepatic encephalopathy, and coagulopathy in patients without preexisting liver disease. In this study, we sought to evaluate the results of liver transplant as a treatment for acute liver failure. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between November 1988 and March 2015, we performed 482...

UNLABELLED Although some studies have examined the epidemiology of bloodstream infections after liver transplantation, they were based in single centers and did not identify bloodstream infections treated in other hospitals. METHODS We retrospectively examined a cohort of 7912 adult liver transplant recipients from 24 transplant centers using 2004 to 2012 International Classification of Disea...

INTRODUCTION Several skin disorders, immunosuppression-induced, have been described in transplant recipients. The aim of our study is to characterize the clinical spectrum of skin disorders and to compare the findings in liver and kidney transplant recipients. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective descriptive study was conducted. Data were collected from the medical records of all liver and ki...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION To investigate whether donor liver steatosis increases the incidence of new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) in liver transplant recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed liver transplant recipients at Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, China, from April 2001 to December 2014. The final analysis involved 763 patients. The cumulative incidence of NO...

patients with irreversible end-stage liver disease or acute hepatic failure in whom conventional medial therapy has been ineffective. Since the initiation of liver transplants in the 1960s, this procedure has been performed with increasing frequency and as a result, related medical and surgical complications have become more common (1). Although the incidence of liver-transplant-related complic...

The effect of occlusive portal vein thrombosis (PVT) on the mortality of pediatric liver transplant candidates and recipients is poorly defined. Using standard multivariate techniques, we studied the relationship between PVT and waiting-list and posttransplant survival rates with data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (September 2001 to December 2007). In all, 5087 liver tra...