Between March 1, 1980 and December 31, 1984, 393 orthotopic liver transplantations (OLT) were performed in 313 consecutive recipients. Technical complications were responsible for a substantial morbidity (41/393 allograft loss--10.4%) and mortality (26/313 patient loss--8.3%). Failure of the biliary tract reconstruction, mainly expressed as leakage and obstruction, is the most frequent complica...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious and progressive disorder that results in right ventricular dysfunction that lead to subsequent right heart failure and death. When untreated the median survival for these patients is 2.8 years. Over the past decade advances in disease specific medical therapy considerably changed the natural history. This is reflected in a threefold decrease in the numbe...

The successes of thoracic transplantation have led to the expansion of indications and a subsequent growth in demand for a short supply of organs. In response to this disparity, the criteria for organ donation have been liberalized. Despite these difficult challenges, with advances in surgical techniques and perioperative care of both the donor and recipient, outcomes have continued to improve ...

Aim: Heart transplantation is currently considered the optimal surgical approach for treatment of refractory heart failure, as it offers a higher likelihood survival well significant improvements to quality life. We aim identify factors that relate post-transplantation among patients who received cardiac transplantation. Material and Methods: retrospectively included all transplant recipients u...

1 Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Urology, Andrology and Kidney Transplantation Unit, University of Bari, Piazza G. Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy 2 Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands 3 Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of ...

A 32 year old man underwent renal transplantation for the third time. This procedure was performed in December 1994, using the kidney of a living unrelated donor. The first transplanted kidney remained in the body after rejection but the second one was removed due to trauma. End-to-end anastomosis of the renal artery to the inferior mesenteric artery was performed and the ureter was reimpl...

BACKGROUND Few medium-term or long-term reports on meniscal allograft transplantations are available. In this study, we present the results of a survival analysis of the clinical outcomes of our first 100 procedures involving transplantation of viable medial and lateral meniscal allografts performed in ninety-six patients. METHODS Thirty-nine medial and sixty-one lateral meniscal allografts w...

Liver transplantation is the accepted treatment for a wide variety of liver diseases in children. Over the past 10 years a number of innovative surgical techniques have been developed to overcome the shortage of size matched donors particularly in children less than 5 years of age. Graft and patient survival at one year after liver transplantation has continued to improve, and is now over 85% a...

This is a review article on the main postoperative complications after lung transplantation: airways complications, vascular complications, pleural complications, surgical wound complications, and abdominal complications. Incidence data, severity, and major management regimens are reported. Postoperative complications after lung transplantation result in a significantly increased morbidity and ...