BACKGROUND Definitive treatment for late hepatic artery thrombosis (L-HAT) is retransplantation (re-LT); however, the L-HAT-associated disease burden is poorly represented in allocation models. METHODS Graft access and transplant outcome of the re-LT experience between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed with specific focus on the L-HAT cohort in this single-center retrospective study. RESULTS Ninet...

BACKGROUND To report a surgical method for treating corneal oedema in a case of late-onset Descemet membrane detachment after penetrating keratoplasty. CASE PRESENTATION A 55-year old patient presented with sudden visual loss in his left eye 28 years after penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus. Slit-lamp biomicroscopy revealed a distortion of the corneal graft anatomy with protrusion of th...

ADVANCEMENT in surgical technique, perioperative care, and the availability of effective immunosuppressive agents has made intestinal transplantation a feasible procedure in patients with intestinal failure. Despite improvements in survival, however, the procedure still carries a higher patient and graft loss when compared to other organs. Re-transplantation (re-Tx) in this patient population m...

BACKGROUND Age and number of recipients in need of kidney re-transplantation are increasing. Re-transplantation practices and outcomes in elderly recipients are not previously explored. We aimed to retrospectively evaluate the outcomes of recipients 65 years and older receiving their second deceased donor allograft. METHODS The study was designed as a retrospective registry based study. All r...

dec 2009 were studied. patients with vascular injuries caused by causes other than tear gas shells were excluded from the study. results: all patients were treated with reverse saphenous vein graft as segmental loss was less than 2.5 cm. wound infection was the most common complication, followed by graft occlu-sion. amputation rate was 16.66%. associated nerve injury occurred in 44.44% of the p...

AIM To systematically review the incidence of ipsilateral graft re-rupture and contralateral anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture following its reconstruction, with special attention to the femoral drilling technique. METHODS Systematic review and meta-analysis of high-level prospective studies searched in MEDLINE database following PRISMA statement. The rate of ipsilateral graft re-ruptu...

Gastric and colon interposition are the commonly used in esophageal operations. In this report, Two jejunal esophageal interposition cases are presented. In the first patient, a free jejunal interposition graft was used to re-establish swallowing route in a patient who suffered severe esophageal and gastric chemical burn, and failure of colon interposition graft. The second patient had a leak o...

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair for aortic dissections is recognized as an effective treatment. We herein report the case of a 72-year-old male with a Stanford type B aortic dissection. A stent-graft and double-disk vascular occluder was used to repair the primary and re-entry tears, respectively. At 3 month postoperatively, computed tomographic angiography revealed no endoleaks, the stent-...

OBJECTIVE Once a replaced prosthetic graft is infected, it is usually necessary to re-replace the thoracic aorta to achieve complete resolution of the infection. It is, however, an exceedingly invasive approach to perform such a repeat surgery on patients in a poor condition. We have managed both re-replacement of an infected prosthetic graft and conservative therapy with vacuum-assisted wound ...

The aim was to compare fear of re-injury, patient reported function, static and dynamic tibial translation and muscle strength assessed before and 5 weeks after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction between individuals who sustained a subsequent ACL graft rupture or a contralateral ACL injury within 5 years after the reconstruction, and individuals with no subsequent injury. Ninete...