BACKGROUND Cardiac risk assessment for perioperative outcomes of liver transplantation patients is limited. We examined the outcomes of an older intermediate-cardiac-risk group of patients undergoing liver transplantation surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients who had liver transplantation surgery between 2001 and 2005 were studied. The 3 outcomes analyzed were nonfatal myocardial infarction, ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to compare the utility of the revised Mayo risk model (rMRM) and Child-Pugh scores (CPSs) for predicting the prognosis of disease in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients were divided into 2 groups: Group I (37 patients; alive and not requiring liver transplantation) and Group II (8 patients; deceased or re...

BACKGROUND Generally, attenuation correction is made by incorporating a linear attenuation coefficient, which is based on the attenuation coefficient map (mu-map) created from a computed tomography scan, into the ordered subsets-expectation maximization reconstruction method in non-uniform domains. A non-uniform Chang's attenuation correction method that uses the mu-map created from a computed ...

conclusions the lee is a common finding among kidney transplant recipients. serial monitoring of aminotransferases, particularly alt, should be performed in all patients after kidney transplantation. patients and methods liver enzymes and other biochemical parameters were measured in all recipients. patients were divided into three groups, according to laboratory test time since transplantation...

OBJECTIVES Bone loss is a complication for patients with liver diseases and after transplantation, which results in increased fracture risk. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of osteoporotic vertebral fractures following liver transplantation. METHODS We performed a prospective study of patients who were awaiting liver transplantation. Patients were seen at baseline (visit ...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation can prolong survival in patients with end-stage liver disease. We have proposed that the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score calculated on post-transplant day 7 has a great discriminative power for predicting 1-year mortality after liver transplantation. The Chronic Liver Failure-Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (CLIF-SOFA) score, a modified SOFA...

conclusions organ transplantation and treatment of transplanted patients with immunosuppressive drugs would prone them to various unusual infections. one of these is unusual primary involvement of liver by tuberculosis which has been extremely rare in the previous reports. introduction recipients of liver transplantation are prone to different types of infections such as tuberculosis (tb). case...